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"(CNN) --",
"A 26-year-old man was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges in the January strangling deaths of A 26-year-old man's girlfriend and his girlfriend's four small children in an Oklahoma apartment.",
"A 26-year-old man told a friend A 26-year-old man choked his girlfriend but said his girlfriend's children were elsewhere, an affidavit says.",
"A 26-year-old man is charged with five counts of first degree murder in the January deaths of his girlfriend, 25; his girlfriend's son Teagin, 4; and daughters Evynn, 3, and Autumn and Kirsten, both 7.",
"Bodies were found January 12 in Rust's apartment in El Reno, Oklahoma, about 30 miles west of Oklahoma City.",
"Authorities believe A 26-year-old man killed Rust because his girlfriend threatened to call the police on A 26-year-old man, prosecutors said in court documents released Tuesday.",
"A 26-year-old man knew that likely would bring about A 26-year-old man's arrest, court documents said, because two outstanding bench warrants had been issued on A 26-year-old man after A 26-year-old man failed to appear in court in two criminal cases -- one on charges of driving under the influence and the second on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance.",
"A 26-year-old man had previously served time in prison after being convicted of unlawful possession of marijuana and \"vowed A 26-year-old man would never go back to prison,\" court documents said.",
"Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against Durcho, according to the documents, which note each victim suffered \"severe pain and anguish\" as they fought for their lives while being strangled with a ligature, which could include a string, cord or wire.",
"In addition, court documents said, evidence indicates A 26-year-old man sexually abused both the 7-year-old girls at or near the time the 7-year-old girls died.",
"In Tuesday's arraignment, Canadian County District Judge Edward Cunningham entered not guilty pleas on A 26-year-old man's behalf, according to The Oklahoman newspaper.",
"An affidavit filed in the case, written by an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent, said A 26-year-old man went to the home of an acquaintance January 12 and said A 26-year-old man had \"choked\" Summer Rust -- identified in court papers as Summer Garas -- to death and was leaving Oklahoma.",
"When the acquaintance, a women, asked A 26-year-old man about Rust's children, A 26-year-old man \"told The acquaintance that Rust's children were at Rust's children's grandmother's residence ... while A 26-year-old man and Summer worked out he and Summer's relationship problems,\" according to the affidavit.",
"The acquaintance then called Durcho's mother, who drove to El Reno but received no answer at the door, the affidavit said.",
"She asked her nephew, Durcho's cousin, to accompany her, leading to the discovery of Rust's body.",
"The cousin notified police, and responding officers found the children's bodies in El Reno.",
"According to the court documents released Tuesday, A 26-year-old man also told The acquaintance that A 26-year-old man killed Rust because The acquaintance threatened to call the police on A 26-year-old man.",
"A 26-year-old man was arrested in Hamilton County, Texas, the day after the children's bodies were found.",
"A 26-year-old man has been appointed public defenders, according to Canadian County, Oklahoma, court records, and earlier waived A 26-year-old man's right to a preliminary hearing in the case.",
"CNN's Ashley Broughton contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Court papers say woman, four kids suffered \"severe pain and anguish\"",
"NEW: Two 7-year-old girls sexually assaulted before they died, documents say .",
"NEW: Threat of returning to prison motivated slayings, prosecutors say .",
"Bodies found January 12 in apartment in El Reno, Oklahoma ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A Mexican man who was allegedly killed on orders from victim's own cartel believed they were hunting for victim after victim began working as an informant and was fearful for victim's life, according to court documents.",
"Police say soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, acted as the gunman.",
"victim began to worry after victim began working as an informant for immigration officials in the United States.",
"\"victim was concerned for victim's own well-being and the safety of victim's family,\" court documents said, referencing statements victim made to a witness.",
"When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials gave victim a visa so victim could live in El Paso, Texas, victim's fellow Juarez cartel members began to get suspicious, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said at a press conference.",
"El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said victim's exit from Mexico, combined with a raid on a cartel warehouse and the arrest of cartel lieutenant Pedro \"El Tigre\" Aranas Sanchez led cartel members to believe victim might be working as an informant, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said.",
"Then, a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member, according to court documents.",
"Police say victim quickly became the target of victim's own cartel.",
"Police said victim knew if victim's fellow cartel members found victim, victim would likely be killed, police said.",
"On May 15, his own cartel found victim.",
"victim was shot eight times outside victim's home in El Paso, Texas, police said.",
"Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, 30, and Christopher Andrew Duran, 17, were each named as suspects Monday and each are facing one count of capital murder.",
"The three men are being held on $1 million bond.",
"Police said Apodaca was the shooter, Duran was the getaway car driver, and Rodriguez was the one who coordinated the murder.",
"On Wednesday, police also arrested a 16-year-old who police said was involved in the surveillance and reconnaissance of victim.",
"The juvenile also faces one count of capital murder.",
"Rodriguez and victim were in the Juarez cartel, based across the border from El Paso, police spokesman Chris Mears said.",
"police spokesman Chris Mears said police believe Apodaca and Duran were not cartel members.",
"Apodaca joined the Army a year ago and worked as a crew member on a Patriot missile launcher, officials at Fort Bliss in El Paso said.",
"\"Apodaca was in the top of Apodaca's class,\" said Dave Jackson, Apodaca's grandfather.",
"\"You talk to all Apodaca's sergeants.",
"Apodaca's a good soldier.",
"Now, before Apodaca went in [and joined the Army], Apodaca was in, Apodaca was in with a bad crowd.\"",
"Investigators said at the press conference Investigators think the three suspects met through a relative of Rodriguez.",
"\"Rodriguez [Rodriguez] was the older guy, Rodriguez provided the alcohol, the party locations,\" police Lt. Alfred Lowe said.",
"\"And Rodriguez recruited these people to do Rodriguez's bidding.\"",
"Once the three suspects were allegedly hired, the three suspects were \"told to find the victim in the United States,\" Allen said.",
"Rodriguez paid the victim's cell phone bill hoping Rodriguez would be able to learn where victim lived, federal officials learned, according to court documents.",
"Federal law enforcement was apparently concerned enough about the incident that officers told local law enforcement to signal victim's home could be at risk.",
"Hours before the slaying, police said Rodriguez called a tactical supply store that exclusively sells the same brand of ammunition found at the scene.",
"the three suspects found victim at a relative's home in Canutillo, Texas, and followed victim back to victim's home before shooting victim, police said.",
"The three arrested the three suspects's phone records showed the three suspects's approximate locations on the night of the killing and corroborated that the three suspects were tracking the victim, according to court documents.",
"During an interrogation, Rodriguez told investigators Rodriguez ordered victim's execution, police said.",
"But El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen also said during the press conference that Rodriguez planned the killing and hired the three suspects after Rodriguez was given the order by cartel lieutenant Jesus Aguayo Salas.",
"Police said there was also a warrant out for Rodriguez's arrest.",
"Rodriguez told police Rodriguez paid the participants for their role in the killing, the affidavit said.",
"the affidavit said Rodriguez also noted that Rodriguez was a midlevel member of the cartel, which Rodriguez called the \"Compania,\" and said Rodriguez was in charge of coordinating surveillance for the cartel, \"following intended victims up until intended victims's execution.\"",
"Duran and Rodriguez told police that Apodaca was paid to be the shooter and Duran to drive the getaway car, according to the affidavit.",
"El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said both men were each paid \"quite a robust amount of money ... under $10,000, in that area.\"",
"Police said more arrests could still come in the case.",
"CNN's Ashley Fantz, Tracy Sabo, Mallory Simon and Melanie Whitley contributed to this report."
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"Soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, was one of three men arrested Monday .",
"Other suspects include Ruben Rodriguez Dorado and Christopher Andrew Duran ."
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"'SINDH KALAY', England (CNN) --",
"The aroma of freshly baking flatbread wafts through the air as a unit of British soldiers position a unit of British soldiers for a quick patrol around mock Afghan village.",
"A British soldier on patrol in the mock Afghan village of Sindh Kalay.",
"Market vendors hawk grapes and melons, as a group of village elders sit smoking water pipes and suspicious-looking men lurk beside battered motorcycles.",
"What should the soldiers do?",
"Conduct a weapons search?",
"Approach village elders first?",
"In the complex political and cultural terrain of Afghanistan, what is the best course of action?",
"Except mock Afghan village is not Afghanistan.",
"mock Afghan village's Norfolk, England.",
"Instead of the Hindu Kush mountains, it is the green ladscape and tidy farmhouses of the English countryside that stretch out behind them.",
"Welcome to the British Army's state-of-the art training ground.",
"the British Army's state-of-the art training ground cost more than $20 million to build and every British soldier serving in Afghanistan will do every British soldier serving in Afghanistan's or her training here.",
"\"I think it's the closest thing you are going to get short of being in Afghanistan,\" says Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.",
"Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment's troops have already served one tour of duty in Afghanistan's Helmand province and are training for another.",
"British troops serving in Helmand province are tasked with mentoring and training Afghan security forces.",
"Not an easy job in a Taliban stronghold and Afghanistan's center of opium production.",
"\"Ultimately, a soldier joins the army and trains to fight.",
"That's what a soldier trains to do.",
"But today, it's a much, much more complex environment,\" explains Col. David Colthup of the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.",
"\"The business of being able to interact either through an interpreter or through Afghan security forces, whether Afghan security forces are police or army.",
"And to understand how the people operate and how we can interact better with the people.",
"Because ultimately, that's what it's about,\" he says.",
"The most distinctive features of Sindh Kalay are the high three-meter walls that make up the village compound, creating narrow alleyways difficult for troops to patrol.",
"The village is staffed with Afghan asylum-seekers, many of whom have fled the Taliban.",
"Afghan asylum-seekers, many of whom have fled the Taliban play the roles of market vendors, village elders and sometimes Afghan security forces.",
"Several Afghan women are also on hand, useful for training British soldiers on the religious and cultural sensitivities of entering an Afghan home.",
"Watch British troops training in mock Afghan village » .",
"The Taliban insurgents are played by Nepalese Ghurkha soldiers authorized to handle weapons.",
"They play their roles silently, unable to partake in the Pashtun banter among the Afghans.",
"Fazel Beria is also an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan.",
"Fazel Beria is responsible for recruiting and for creating the sights and smells of Sindh Kalay and is easily identifiable as the only Afghan in the market in Western clothes.",
"Fazel Beria beams with pride walking down the bazaar and clearly relishes Fazel Beria's role in training the British Army.",
"\"Everything with the culture comes up with the issue of hearts and minds,\" Fazel Beria explains.",
"\"If you want to win that, you need to know about their culture.",
"You need to respect their culture, their religion and their way of life.\"",
"Fazel Beria gives high marks to the soldiers training so far.",
"After each exercise, the Afghan actors talk directly to the soldiers about what went wrong and what went right.",
"Sometimes, it's the little things that count.",
"\"Yes, there have been quite a lot of surprises,\" Fazel Beria says.",
"Like Afghan will sit cross legged for hours.",
"\"The British soldier cannot do that,\" he laughs.",
"\"Afghan will be sitting very comfortable and The British soldier is not.",
"So, they have to get used to it.\"",
"See photos of British troops on patrol in mock Afghan village -- and for real in Afghanistan » .",
"Previously, the army trained on farmhouses and in urban neighborhoods that resembled Northern Ireland more than Afghanistan.",
"But mock Afghan village does more than mimic the physical reality of Afghanistan.",
"mock Afghan village also mirrors the changing tactics on the ground.",
"Troops are grilled in IED training by amputees that act out the violence with latex wounds and fake blood.",
"When a new IED tactic is discovered by troops in Afghanistan a new IED tactic is communicated to mock Afghan village and put into practice immediately.",
"\"Before we had this, it wasn't realistic enough,\" says Col. Richard Westley, head of training here.",
"\"I think if you're going to be asking young men and women to go and risk young men and women's lives in someone else's country, then you have a moral obligation to prepare young men and women for that environment.",
"And that's what mock Afghan village does.",
"mock Afghan village gives young men and women the isolation and complexity of an Afghan village.",
"Which we can't do with farmhouses which represent Western Europe.\"",
"Some of the details in mock Afghan village don't quite ring true.",
"The slabs of lamb and beef hanging from the market stalls are plastic, as are the grapes and melons the vendors try and sell to the British soldiers.",
"Still, mock Afghan village is eerily effective.",
"When soldiers sit down for a \"shura\" or meeting with village elders, helicopters buzz overhead and soldiers seem surprised to be served a homemade yogurt and cucumber drink.",
"But the unit commander can't help laughing when one of the Afghan village heads pulls out a \"list of damages\" by British troops.",
"It turns out to be a receipt for the local supermarket."
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"Taliban militants are played by Nepalese Ghurkha soldiers .",
"Village trains soldiers to understand Afghan customs, respect Afghan culture ."
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"(CNN) --",
"President Leonel Fernandez continues to shuffle President Leonel Fernandez's top military commanders as President Leonel Fernandez tries to make good on President Leonel Fernandez's recent promise to cleanse Dominican Republic of corruption.",
"Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez has faced political pressure to act on government corruption.",
"After firing 700 police officers and forcing the retirement of 31 military and police generals Sunday, President Leonel Fernandez on Monday removed more generals and reassigned others.",
"Dominican Republic also has announced that more than 535 members of Dominican Republic's 24,000-strong military have been forced out in the past six months due to more than 535 members of the nation's 24,000-strong military's suspected involvement in the drug trade.",
"Among the generals forced to retire was the former head of Dominican Republic's top anti-drug agency, the Dominican National Drug Control, known by the Dominican National Drug Control's Spanish acronym DNCD.",
"In his state-of-the-nation speech Friday, President Leonel Fernandez said, \"In Dominican Republic -- listen well -- narcotrafficking will not pass.\"",
"Despite President Leonel Fernandez's strong words, many Dominican citizens and outside analysts said narcotrafficking already has taken hold.",
"\"The situation in Dominican Republic is that organizations that are supposedly involved in fighting corruption and narcotrafficking are involved in it,\" said Tomas Castro Monegro, an anti-corruption attorney for 25 years in Santo Domingo, the capital.",
"Tobias Friedl, a regional manager for Latin America at Washington-based iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, which helps companies assess and deal with dangers abroad, said, \"The security forces -- the army and the police -- have been corrupted.\"",
"The Dominican government generally carries out military promotions and retirements on February 27, the day in which Dominican Republic celebrates Dominican Republic's 1844 declaration of independence from Haiti.",
"But this year's numbers are unprecedented, Castro said.",
"In 1978, Castro said, 48 generals were let go -- some for perceived corruption, others for political reasons.",
"But Castro said Castro never has seen 700 police officers fired or more than 500 military personnel relieved of their duties.",
"\"In the majority of cases,\" Castro said, \"there has to be something linking that person to narcotrafficking or corruption in general.\"",
"National police chief Rafael Guzman addressed National police chief Rafael Guzman's force Monday, admonishing his force not to cave in to the many temptations his force face.",
"\"Today, more than ever, harassed by increasingly demanding challenges that jump out from all sides, just when drug trafficking persists in crippling society, it's time for all police agents and officers, the men and women of our dear institution ... to raise our chest, since this is the moment to define ourselves.",
"We're with Dominican Republic or we're against Dominican Republic,\" he was quoted as saying in the Dominican Today and Listin Diario newspaper Web sites.",
"Castro and others said police and the military have been involved in organized crime \"for a long time.\"",
"The evidence lies in the lavish lifestyles many of these officials are able to sustain on a public salary, Castro and others said.",
"\"They live in contradiction with their salaries,\" Castro said.",
"\"They live in houses that cost millions of pesos and drive big vehicles.\"",
"Corrupt officials prefer to work in customs, at the airport and the border and in anti-drug units, Castro said.",
"Corrupt officials receive bribes from traffickers, Castro said, and also profit by arresting people involved in the drug trade and taking people involved in the drug trade's possessions.",
"Castro, a well-known attorney in a nation of less than 10 million, has represented drug suspects and has argued cases before the Dominican Supreme Court.",
"In 2000, a published report said, Castro filed a suit against Fernandez alleging padded road-construction contracts.",
"Friedl, the risk analyst, notes that Caribbean routes for drug shipments have diminished due to strong interdiction efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard.",
"The majority of shipments now travel through Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama, he said.",
"However, Friedl and others said, the drug trade still flourishes in Dominican Republic.",
"\"Dominican Republic is not a major drug-producing country, but Dominican Republic acts as a transit point for cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ecstasy bound for the United States and Europe,\" said Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment, a publication that offers country-by-country risk analysis.",
"\"The main trafficking routes are by sea from South America, and the drugs are then transferred by go-fast boats to islands such as Puerto Rico and St. Martin, on the way to the U.S.\"",
"The indexmundi Web site, which offers analyses on nations worldwide, said Dominican Republic has become \"a trans-shipment point for ecstasy from the Netherlands and Belgium destined for the U.S. and Canada.\"",
"Jane's and indexmundi point out that substantial money-laundering also takes place in Dominican Republic.",
"Deteriorating conditions in Haiti, with which Dominican Republic shares a 193-mile border, have led traffickers to go next door.",
"\"Haiti was the place where drugs used to come through,\" Friedl said.",
"\"Some of this now has shifted to Dominican Republic.\"",
"Drug use in Dominican Republic also has shifted.",
"Ramon Cruz Benzan, a reporter for the Listin Diario newspaper who has been covering corruption cases, relates what many Dominicans say: \"Before, it used to come in and it would go.",
"Now, it's not like that.",
"It comes in and it stays.\"",
"Friedl points out that tourism creates a demand for drugs.",
"\"Tourism is a huge thing in Dominican Republic.",
"Local consumption has definitely gone up.\"",
"And large Dominican communities in the United States and Puerto Rico \"create a natural connection\" for drug smuggling into those countries, Friedl said.",
"Federal officials in New York have been battling -- and indicting -- Dominican natives on drug charges for years",
"Some observers see President Leonel Fernandez's crackdown as a sign that President Leonel Fernandez is getting serious.",
"\"President Leonel Fernandez is trying to weed out corruption,\" said Chris Kimble, a Latin America analyst also with iJET Intelligent Risk Systems.",
"Others, such as the lawyer Castro, said President Leonel Fernandez was forced to act after public outcry concerning the shootings deaths in August of seven Colombians in a drug-related case.",
"A high-level commission appointed by President Leonel Fernandez concluded that low- and midlevel officials from the national police were involved.",
"But many Dominicans said many Dominicans believe higher-ranking officers were responsible and the political pressure has been mounting on President Leonel Fernandez to act.",
"And many observers don't expect this will be the last of it."
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"President Leonel Fernandez shuffles more commanders after forcing retirement of 31 military, police generals .",
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --",
"One Marine was killed in action and several others wounded Thursday in a major U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, the Marines said.",
"the Marines prepare for Operation Khanjar at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Afghanistan, on Thursday.",
"The push, called Operation Khanjar, is targeting militants in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold and poppy-growing region.",
"The forces are attempting to gain and hold ground in poppy-growing region ahead of national elections in August.",
"Almost 4,000 Marines and sailors, along with several hundred Afghan security forces and British troops, worked to clear Taliban militants from population centers in the Helmand River valley.",
"Almost 4,000 Marines and sailors have been operating in the districts of Nawa and Garmsir in central Helmand province and \"as far south as the vicinity of Khan Neshin, the capital of Rig district in the region of the Helmand River valley known as 'The Fishhook.' \"",
"the Marines stressed the mission \"is to provide security for population centers\" and \"connect local citizens with local citizens's legitimate government while establishing stable and secure conditions for national elections.\"",
"Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangal, said Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangal believes Operation Khanjar will work and has assured the populace that Operation Khanjar will provide security for the populace.",
"Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangal's spokesman also confirmed that resistance had been minimal.",
"the Marines said about 80 percent of the Marines are in direct combat, with the rest working in support.",
"Taliban resistance has been light and sporadic, consisting of intermittent small arms fire, the Marines said on Thursday.",
"the Marines have encountered only relatively small groups of militants.",
"\"Indications are the militants break away shortly after the militants make contact,\" Marine spokesman 1st Lt. Abe Sipe said, referring to what is regarded as the Taliban's habit of running and hiding after troops confront them.",
"A Taliban spokesman said the group's fighters had killed 33 soldiers and destroyed several vehicles.",
"CNN could not independently verify the Taliban claims because of safety and access issues.",
"There has been an outcry in Afghanistan over civilian deaths in the Afghan war's crossfire, with much ire directed toward coalition air operations.",
"But the Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan emphasized in a news release that the Marines have not \"received any confirmed reports of civilian casualties or damage to property.\"",
"the Marines said the Marines have not utilized \"artillery or other indirect fire weapons, and no bombs have been dropped from aircraft.\"",
"the Marines operates under NATO's International Security Assistance Force.",
"The assault has prompted Pakistani authorities to redeploy troops along the Afghan border to stop Taliban from escaping the push in poppy-growing region.",
"More than 30 U.S., British and Danish troops have been killed there since January, with the latest being the Marine on Thursday and a pair of British soldiers slain in poppy-growing region on Wednesday.",
"the push is the largest since the Pentagon began moving additional troops into the conflict this year, and the push comes after a British-led operation launched last week in the same region, the Marines said.",
"When President Obama announced President Obama's strategy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Obama said American soldiers and Marines \"will take the fight to Taliban in the south and the east, and give us a greater capacity to partner with Afghan security forces and to go after insurgents along the border.\"",
"President Obama also said the bolstered deployment \"will also help provide security\" ahead of August presidential elections in Afghanistan.",
"The Obama administration has moved about 21,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the original front in the war launched after the September 11 attacks.",
"It is also the first big move since U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal took over as the allied commander in Afghanistan in mid-June.",
"In Washington, a senior defense official said the size and scope of Operation Khanjar are \"very significant.\"",
"\"It's not common for forces to operate at the brigade level,\" a senior defense official said.",
"\"In fact, they often only conduct missions at the platoon level.",
"And they're going into the most troubled area of Afghanistan.\"",
"a senior defense official said Operation Khanjar is a \"tangible indication\" of the new approach that McChrystal -- a former chief of the Pentagon's special operations command -- is bringing to the nearly eight-year war.",
"\"They're not just doing an offensive push to get bad guys; they're going in to hold the area and stay there,\" a senior defense official said.",
"\"This approach is indicative of McChrystal's philosophy: measuring success by the number of Afghans protected, not bad guys killed.\"",
"During McChrystal's confirmation hearing in June, McChrystal told senators that the conflict requires a new focus on counterinsurgency to reduce violence and build support for the U.S.-led NATO alliance among Afghans.",
"\"Although I expect stiff fighting ahead, the measure of success will not be enemy killed.",
"the measure of success will be shielding the Afghan population from violence,\" McChrystal said.",
"Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan before Taliban's allies in al Qaeda attacked New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.",
"Though quickly toppled after the attacks, Taliban's leaders escaped, and the movement regrouped in the Afghan countryside and across the border in Pakistan.",
"poppy-growing region was once known as the breadbasket of Afghanistan, but the fertile land is now used for growing poppies.",
"Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's opium, with most of that coming from the poppies in poppy-growing region.",
"The drug trade is an import source of income for the Taliban and major supply routes run through poppy-growing region.",
"CNN's Atia Abawi in Afghanistan, Nic Robertson in Pakistan and Chris Lawrence and Barbara Starr at the Pentagon contributed to this report."
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"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) --",
"A 12-mile oil slick near where an plane jet crashed Monday into Atlantic Ocean indicates plane likely didn't break up until plane hit the water, Brazil's defense minister said Wednesday.",
"Image released by the Brazilian Air Force shows oil slicks in the water near a debris site.",
"If true, that would argue against an in-flight explosion as the cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters.",
"But Robert Francis, former vice chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, said the question of determining where a plane broke up \"is a very difficult one to deal with.\"",
"He told CNN's \"Anderson Cooper 360\" that \"there are lots of things that cause a plane to go out of control.\"",
"He added that extremely strong winds are not unusual near Brazil.",
"Pilots who fly over that part of the world keep track of radar and \"are very, very wary about the weather as Pilots who fly over that part of the world go back and forth down in that area.\"",
"Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said currents had strewn the debris widely and that the search area had been expanded to 300 square miles.",
"The Airbus A330, carrying 228 people, went down about three hours after beginning what was to have been an 11-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, France.",
"No survivors have been found.",
"Map of Flight AF 447's flight path » .",
"Investigators have not determined what caused plane to crash.",
"The flight data recorders have not been recovered, and plane's crew did not send any messages indicating problems before plane disappeared.",
"Watch as high seas hamper recovery » .",
"The Brazilian Air Force said The Brazilian Air Force found the oil slick and four debris fields Wednesday, but rain and rough seas kept searchers from plucking any of the debris from the water.",
"Among Wednesday's finds were objects in a circular 5-kilometer (3-mile) area, including one object with a diameter of 7 meters (23 feet) and 10 other objects, some of which were metallic, Brazilian Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral said.",
"Searchers had found two debris fields Tuesday and identified the wreckage as coming from Flight 447.",
"The debris was found about 650 kilometers (400 miles) northeast of the Fernando de Noronha Islands, an archipelago 355 kilometers (220 miles) off the northeast coast of Brazil.",
"The debris included an airplane seat and an orange float.",
"Wednesday's debris find was about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Tuesday's discoveries, Brazilian Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral said.",
"Eleven aircraft and five ships are engaged in the search, including airplanes from France and the United States.",
"Watch as experts question whether recovery is possible » .",
"The NTSB said Wednesday The NTSB has accepted an invitation from the French aviation accident investigation authority, the Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses, to aid in the investigation.",
"The NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker has designated senior air safety investigator Bill English as the U.S. accredited representative.",
"The U.S. team will include technical advisers from the Federal Aviation Administration; General Electric, which made the plane's engines; and Honeywell, which made plane's data recorders.",
"The aircraft's computer system did send about four minutes of automated messages indicating a loss of cabin pressure and an electrical failure, officials have said.",
"Some investigators have noted that plane flew through a severe lightning storm.",
"Foul play has not been ruled out.",
"Air France had received a bomb threat May 27 for a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Paris, sources in the Argentine military and police told CNN on Wednesday.",
"According to the officials, who had been briefed on the incident and declined to be identified because of the ongoing investigation, the Air France office in Buenos Aires received a bomb threat from a man speaking Spanish.",
"Authorities checked the Boeing 777 and did not find anything.",
"Security was tightened during check-in for Flight 415, which left on time and without incident, the officials, who had been briefed on the incident and declined to be identified because of the ongoing investigation said.",
"Although officials have said the likelihood of finding survivors of plane's crash is small, authorities have not closed the door on the possibility.",
"\"Until the aircraft is identified, and the remains indicate that survival is technically impossible, we will maintain the possibility that there could be survivors,\" Amaral said.",
"The majority of the people on plane came from Brazil, Air France and Germany.",
"The remaining victims were from 29 other countries, including three passengers from the United States.",
"French officials said Wednesday French officials may never find the jet's flight data recorders.",
"The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates the ocean depth in the area at 3,000 meters (about 9,840 feet) to 7,500 meters (24,600 feet).",
"Brazilian officials have said the sea depth in the area is around 2,000 to 3,000 meters (6,562 to 9,842 feet).",
"\"We need time to reach the recorders,\" said Paul-Louis Arslanian, head of Air France's accident investigation bureau.",
"the recorders are built to emit locator signals for up to 30 days.",
"The French government has sent a research vessel carrying a deep-diving submersible to where the debris was found.",
"\"Recorders from time to time were found after the 30 days, but I'm not so optimistic,\" Arslanian said.",
"\"It's not only deep, it's also very mountainous at that place of the ocean.\"",
"But Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed optimism that the flight data recorders would be found.",
"\"I think that a country with the ability to retrieve oil from 6,000 meters (3.7 miles) underwater can retrieve a plane from 2,000 meters (1.2 miles).",
"The truth is, we are going to see -- I'm not a specialist and don't want to give predictions of what will happen,\" Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, according to the Brazilian state news agency.",
"A memorial for the victims of Flight AF 447, which included 61 people from Air France, 58 Brazilians, 26 Germans and people from 29 other countries, took place Wednesday at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.",
"Brazil has declared three days of mourning.",
"CNN correspondent John Zarrella in Rio de Janeiro and journalist Brian Byrnes from Buenos Aires contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) --",
"A rash of bank robberies in New York has the city's police commissioner worried that criminals have turned banks into \"virtual cash machines\" and some wondering whether tough economic times are fueling the trend.",
"A surveillance camera captures a bank robbery suspect in New York on December 2.",
"On Monday alone, robbers targeted five banks in the Big Apple, some striking in broad daylight and near famous landmarks.",
"Police called the incidents unrelated, but they're just the latest examples of the growing tally of hold-ups.",
"Bank robberies in New York have risen 54 percent compared with last year, with criminals committing more than 430 in the past 12 months, according to the New York police department.",
"\"As it stands now, they've turned [banks] into virtual cash machines,\" New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.",
"Bank robberies are also up in many areas across the country, including San Diego, California, and Houston, Texas, federal law enforcement experts told CNN.",
"It's enough for some to link the trend to the rash of layoffs, the plummeting stock market and the bust in the real estate values, all of which have left many Americans in dire financial straits.",
"\"It makes me think that the recession is making people go to extreme measures,\" a woman who frequents one of the banks robbed Monday told The New York Times.",
"Watch where the robbers struck » .",
"But New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it's not clear whether the bad economic times are fueling the unusual spike.",
"\"People want to say... it's because of the economy.",
"I think it's too early to make that statement,\" New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.",
"CNN security analyst Mike Brooks agreed, adding that although there are typically many bank robberies during the holidays, there are no data to suggest that any recent spike was caused by the economy.",
"Another expert said it's possible that the difficulty of finding a job right now may be a factor, but Another expert doubted that law-abiding citizens are turning to crime to make ends meet.",
"\"It's hard to attribute the bank robberies to people who were let go from Lehman Brothers or other organizations that are in trouble,\" said Alfred Blumstein, who has researched criminal justice for 20 years and is a professor of operations research at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.",
"\"I would anticipate that people who rob banks have been involved with crime before because that's not where one is likely to start,\" Blumstein said.",
"A person who might turn to robbing banks is someone in their late teens or early 20s who has already broken the law and has decided to move on to a bigger target, he added.",
"\"Bank robbery is a very high-risk activity, because most banks have various surveillance equipment in place, and Bank robbery requires a degree of aggressiveness that otherwise law-abiding folks are not likely to take on,\" Blumstein said.",
"Some officials say the modern, customer-friendly design of banks -- with easy access to tellers and cash -- is too tempting for robbers.",
"\"We don't like the business plan that makes a bank look like a living room,\" New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said \"We [advise] just some common sense provisions, such as so-called bandit barriers, so that tellers have some option to act when somebody puts a note in front of tellers.\"",
"In fact, bank robbers have simply handed tellers a note in a vast majority of hold-ups in New York.",
"New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly put the figure at 80 percent and added that although the rest of the robbers claimed to have a gun, many didn't actually show a gun.",
"Mike Smith, president and CEO of the New York Bankers Association, is meeting with the NYPD to see what more can be done to discourage robbers.",
"Mike Smith said banks have a significant amount of security, some of which may not be visible to the public.",
"\"Are there enhancements?",
"Obviously.",
"Criminals talk to each other, Criminals know what's going on, but typically Criminals are apprehended,\" Mike Smith said.",
"CNN's A. Pawlowski contributed to this report."
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"Los Angeles', California (CNN) --",
"Fans wishing to attend singer Michael Jackson's memorial service next week will have to register for the 11,000 free tickets, organizers said Thursday.",
"Jackson is shown rehearsing at Los Angeles' Staples Center on June 23, two days before Jackson's death.",
"Details on how to register for the 10 a.m. (1 p.m. ET) service at the 20,000-seat Staples Center in Los Angeles', California, Tuesday are to be announced Friday.",
"Jackson's family will hold a private ceremony before the public memorial service, Jermaine Jackson's brother said Thursday.",
"Speaking to CNN's Larry King, Jermaine Jackson said a private ceremony will be held Tuesday morning, but Jermaine Jackson did not say where.",
"Jackson rehearsed at Los Angeles' Staples Center two nights before Jackson died, and Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip of the rehearsal obtained by CNN.",
"Jackson died June 25 after collapsing at Jackson's rented home in Los Angeles'. AEG, promoter of Jackson's planned London, England, shows, released the short video of Jackson rehearsing in the arena on June 23.",
"Jackson sang \"They Don't Care About Us,\" a song from Jackson's \"HIStory\" album, as Jackson danced along with eight male dancers.",
"Watch Jackson rehearse » .",
"Jackson did not specify where Jackson wished to be buried in a 2002 will, which was filed in court Wednesday.",
"Watch CNN's Anderson Cooper talk about his interview with AEG » .",
"More information emerged Thursday about how Jackson's estate will be shared, which Jackson's will estimated in 2002 as being worth $500 million.",
"The family trust created by Jackson to receive all of Jackson's assets includes Jackson's mother, Jackson's children and a list of charities, according to a person with direct knowledge of the contents of the trust.",
"Mother Katherine Jackson's 40 percent share would go to Jackson's three children after death's death, the source said.",
"The children -- ages 7, 11 and 12 -- also will share 40 percent of Jackson's estate's assets, and the remaining 20 percent will benefit charities designated by the executors of the will, the source said.",
"A judge has delayed for a week, until July 13, a hearing to decide whether Mother Katherine Jackson will remain the temporary guardian of Jackson's children.",
"At a brief talk with reporters Thursday, an attorney for Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe said Rowe \"has not reached a final decision\" on whether Rowe will challenge Jackson's mother for custody of Jackson's two oldest children, according to Rowe's lawyer.",
"A Los Angeles TV station quoted Rowe on Thursday morning saying, \"I want Jackson.\"",
"Except for the statement to A Los Angeles TV station, Rowe has not publicly indicated whether Rowe would seek custody now that Jackson is dead.",
"Rowe was left out of the will.",
"\"I have intentionally omitted to provide for my former wife, Deborah Rowe Jackson,\" the will said.",
"the will nominated Katherine Jackson, now 79, as the guardian of Jackson.",
"If Jackson were to die, \"I nominate Diana Ross as guardian,\" Jackson said in the will, written July 7, 2002.",
"Singer Ross, 65, was a lifelong friend of Jackson's.",
"Watch how the two had a close relationship » .",
"There's also a question on when the will's executors should take over control of the late entertainer's assets, which Judge Mitchell Beckloff temporarily placed under Mother Katherine Jackson's control.",
"One man named as executor is John Branca, who represented Jackson from 1980 until 2006 and was hired again before the singer's death.",
"He helped acquire Jackson's music catalog, which is worth millions.",
"The other is music industry executive John McClain, a longtime Jackson friend who has worked with Jackson and Jackson's sister Janet.",
"DEA reportedly joins investigation .",
"The Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation into death's death, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday night.",
"And the California State Attorney General's office said Thursday that the California State Attorney General's office is helping the Los Angeles Police Department in its investigation.",
"the California State Attorney General's office said the California State Attorney General's office will assist police in sifting through information in a state database that monitors controlled medication.",
"Two law enforcement officials separately confirmed the DEA inquiry, saying agents would look at doctors involved with Jackson, their practices and their possible sources of medicine supply.",
"Neither official wanted to be identified because they could not comment publicly on the matter.",
"Officially, a DEA spokeswoman referred questions to the Los Angeles Police Department, which would not confirm the involvement.",
"\"We routinely offer assistance to any agency regarding the Federal Controlled Substance Act,\" said Sarah Pullen of DEA.",
"\"However, at this time, we have nothing further to comment about the death of Jackson.\"",
"Speculation about the role of drugs has been swirling since Jackson died June 25 at Jackson's rented estate in Holmby Hills.",
"The cause of Jackson's death, at age 50, was pending toxicology results.",
"On Wednesday, police released a car belonging to Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray.",
"police had impounded the vehicle Friday, saying the vehicle might contain evidence -- possibly prescription medications.",
"Police did not say whether Police found anything.",
"Dr. Conrad Murray's attorneys issued a statement, asking the public to reserve judgment about the cause of death until the coroner's tests are complete.",
"\"Based on our agreement with Los Angeles' investigators, we are waiting on real information to come from viable sources like the Los Angeles' medical examiner's office about the death of death,\" a statement said.",
"\"We will not be responding to rumors and innuendo.\"",
"No public showing planned for Neverland .",
"Logistical and financial challenges derailed earlier plans for a public viewing and private memorial at Neverland Ranch.",
"Planning had been under way for a motorcade to carry Jackson's body from Los Angeles' to the Santa Barbara County ranch, which state and local officials suggested would be difficult and costly.",
"Law enforcement sources had said a public viewing at Neverland Ranch was under consideration for Friday, but a spokesman for the family said that it would not happen.",
"\"Plans are under way regarding a public memorial for Jackson, and we will announce Plans shortly,\" said Ken Sunshine, whose public relations firm had been hired by the Jackson family.",
"Despite the announcement, more than two dozen TV satellite trucks lined the narrow two-lane road leading to Neverland Ranch.",
"For a time, the California Highway Patrol closed the narrow two-lane road leading to the ranch to clear up a small bottleneck of cars created by Jackson fans and the media.",
"CNN's Drew Griffin, Kathleen Johnston, Michael Carey, Paul Vercammen, Carol Cratty and Kara Finnstrom contributed to this report."
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"Source: Jackson memorial to be Tuesday at Los Angeles' Staples Center .",
"Jackson appears healthy in video clip of rehearsal two days before death .",
"Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly joins inquiry into Jackson's death ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The British are coming, The British are coming -- to Brooklyn?",
"By subway?",
"Barclays has paid $300 million for the naming rights to the New Jersey Nets arena.",
"NEW YORK's struggling Metropolitan Transportation Authority has sold the naming rights to the second-busiest subway stop in Brooklyn.",
"Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street station will now have the name of a British bank, Barclays, added to Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street station.",
"Several subway riders are outraged that Barclays has purchased the naming rights to this subway stop, which sees about 10 million people go through it each day.",
"One straphanger said, \"A London Bank shouldn't be the name of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street station; it's something that belongs to the public domain.\"",
"Another said, \"It's just everywhere we go, everything we do, it's just branding, branding, branding.",
"It's America now.\"",
"Renaming Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street station is tied to the construction of Barclays Center, the new sports arena for the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets.",
"Barclays is paying developer Forest City Ratner $300 million for naming rights to Barclays Center, the new sports arena for the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets.",
"developer Forest City Ratner, in a separate deal, will be paying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority $200,000 a year for the next 20 years to rename this commuter hub.",
"Authority Press Secretary Jeremy Soffin said, \"Like transit systems all over the U.S. and around the world, we are facing budget deficits.\"",
"In an effort to bridge the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $1 billion deficit, the transit giant that oversees the operation of the city's subways, buses and rail lines wants to follow the Barclays example with stations throughout the system.",
"Though Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street station is the first in New York for which naming rights have been sold, across the country, there have been several cases of public transportation systems using naming rights to increase revenue.",
"In 2003, the Las Vegas monorail system signed a 12-year, $50 million deal with Nextel to put the Las Vegas monorail system's name on the station in the Las Vegas Convention Center.",
"The Cleveland Bus System sold station names to two hospitals for $1.1 million a year.",
"Internationally, Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority has been selling the naming rights of 23 metro stations.",
"However, not all naming rights deals are successful.",
"In 2001, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tried to raise $22 million by auctioning the naming rights to four historic \"T\" stations.",
"the Metropolitan Transportation Authority received no bids.",
"Reassuring the public that there are certain lines they won't cross when it comes to renaming stations of historical value, Soffin said, \"It's a very clear line there, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority want to be as open as possible, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority're not sort of selling the shop here.\""
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"Insurgents' use of roadside bombs has increased dramatically in Afghanistan this year, according to Pentagon statistics, and the United States' top military official is calling roadside bombs the \"No. 1 threat\" to troops there.",
"An IED is exploded by U.S. Marines near the remote village of Baqwa, Afghanistan, in March.",
"In June there were 736 incidents in Afghanistan involving roadside bombs, called improvised explosive devices or IEDs, and 82 \"effective attacks,\" ones that caused casualties among coalition forces, the figures show.",
"That was up from 263 incidents and 25 effective attacks in February, with the numbers increasing each month, said the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, an agency dedicated to thwarting roadside bombs.",
"The number of coalition forces killed and wounded by such bombs has climbed, though not steadily, from 18 killed and 33 wounded in February to 23 killed and 166 wounded in June, the agency said.",
"No numbers were provided for July, but such attacks have continued this month.",
"In the latest, roadside bombs killed two NATO-led troops on Thursday, one in eastern Afghanistan and the other in southern Afghanistan.",
"The military has called IEDs the weapon of choice for insurgents in that country.",
"And at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in response to a reporter's question that the biggest threat to coalition troops in Afghanistan is improvised explosive devices.",
"Watch Adm. Mullen address efforts in Afghanistan » .",
"He noted that they \"have become more and more sophisticated over time\" and that they are being combined with \"more and more sophisticated attacks from the Taliban, where they use IEDs as well as other tactics to inflict or to fight our troops.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"David Letterman has been taking some heat and issuing some apologies for the off-color joke David Letterman made last week about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, but David Letterman found a sympathetic critic in Foxworthy on Monday.",
"Jeff Foxworthy, the father of two teenage daughters, says David Letterman's joke was flawed.",
"The best-selling comedy recording artist in history paid a visit to CNN's \"Larry King Live\" to talk about David Letterman's gaffe.",
"\"As a father of two teenage daughters, it was a flawed joke,\" Foxworthy said.",
"David Letterman joked last Tuesday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's \"daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez\" at a recent Yankees game, stirring up an angry reaction from the Palin family.",
"David Letterman has since apologized twice for what David Letterman called \"inappropriate\" humor.",
"And Foxworthy agreed: \"I don't think any kind of joke about someone having sex with a teenage girl is funny.\"",
"Watch Foxworthy comment on joke » .",
"But Foxworthy's rebuke of David Letterman's joke was gentle in tone, and Foxworthy showed empathy for David Letterman as well as the Palin family.",
"\"As a comedian, you look at what Dave does,\" Foxworthy said.",
"\"You're trying to do this night after night, year after year, decade after decade -- at some point in the road, are you going to throw one out there you shouldn't have?",
"Yeah.\"",
"Foxworthy said it's probably time to forgive and forget.",
"\"It's about forgiveness,\" Foxworthy said.",
"\"David Letterman came back and apologized and said: 'Hey, the joke is flawed.'",
"And to me you move on.\"",
"King asked what advice Foxworthy'd give Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin received an invitation to appear on David Letterman's \"Late Show.\"",
"Foxworthy said Foxworthy'd encourage the Alaska governor to accept it.",
"\"Life is about forgiveness.",
"I think that makes Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bigger to go on there and say 'I accept your apology'.\"",
"David Letterman has insisted David Letterman was referring to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old, Bristol, who gave birth to a boy in December, and not her 14-year-old, Willow, in the joke.",
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has called that a \"weak, convenient excuse\" for a joke that was\"inappropriate\" no matter which daughter was the target.",
"Foxworthy, the author of \"How to Really Stink at Work,\" also made some \"confessions\" about his pre-comedy career in corporate America.",
"\"I was at IBM for five years; I don't know how much work I did,\" Foxworthy said.",
"The comedian, who said Foxworthy used to make prank phone calls to Foxworthy's boss at work to lure him back and forth from his desk, had this tongue-in-cheek advice for people about how far to take things on the job: .",
"\"You don't really want to get fired; you want to have a job.",
"But you don't want to do it well, because you're going to be promoted, and that's a lot of pressure.",
"Who can have any fun with that kind of anvil hanging over your head?\"",
"Foxworthy is also the host of \"Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader\" and talked about the appeal of a game show that spotlights how much people tend to forget after all those years of cramming in facts at school.",
"\"It's a strange thing why the brain keeps some things,\" Foxworthy said.",
"\"Like I don't know why my brain has all the words to 'The Brady Bunch' theme song, but my brain deleted everything about triangles.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Big Ben, arguably the world's most famous clock, celebrates on Sunday 150 years of keeping London on time.",
"The British landmark has lived through war, bad weather and disasters.",
"London's Big Ben's distinctive bongs have been a part of the London scene for 150 years.",
"London's Big Ben is the 14-ton bell inside the world's largest four-faced chiming clock, although most people use London's Big Ben to describe the tower that houses London's Big Ben.",
"London's Big Ben is perched on a 96-meter (310-foot) elegant tower at the Westminster Bridge end of the Palace of Westminster.",
"The Victorian masterpiece, which provides distinctive chimes known as bongs, was voted Britain's favorite monument in 2008.",
"It has been featured in films such as \"101 Dalmatians\" and \"Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix.\"",
"London's Big Ben has been disrupted a few times over the years for various reasons, including weather and breakages.",
"London's Big Ben's bongs went silent for about two months in August 2007 to allow a crew to repair its mechanism system.",
"During that time, the rest of London's Big Ben was running on an electric system.",
"London's Big Ben was fully restarted again October 1.",
"London's Big Ben pays tribute to Britain's royal history: London's Big Ben has a Latin inscription of the phrase: \"O Lord, save our Queen Victoria the First.\"",
"The ornate masterpiece has some quirky features.",
"The hour hand, which weighs 300 kilograms (661 pounds), is made of gun metal while the minute hands are made of copper sheet.",
"the minute hands would not work when the minute hands were first made of cast iron because the minute hands were too heavy.",
"London's Big Ben started working on May 31, 1859, after the lighter copper hands were installed.",
"The origins of London's Big Ben's name are obscure.",
"Some say London's Big Ben was named after the 1850s heavyweight boxer Ben Caunt while others suggest London's Big Ben was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, a former member of parliament.",
"Hall, the commissioner of works in 1859, was responsible for ordering London's Big Ben.",
"Alan Hughes, the director of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry that made London's Big Ben, prefers the latter.",
"\"I suppose I like it chiefly because it was a nickname of a man who was big and loud and pompous, and never used one word if 27 would do,\" he said in a 2008 interview.",
"Hughes' company also made America's Liberty Bell and a number of others for cathedrals and churches around the world."
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"(CNN) --",
"The emergence of a purported statement from Osama bin Laden's about U.S. policy in Pakistan as the U.S. president embarks on a major trip to Muslim countries is no coincidence, the White House spokesman and a counterterrorism official say.",
"Osama bin Laden's is seen in an image taken from a videotape that aired on Al-Jazeera in September 2003.",
"\"I think the reports White House've seen are consistent with messages White House've seen in the past from al Qaeda threatening the U.S. and other countries that are involved in counter-terrorism efforts,\" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday.",
"\"But I don't think it's surprising that al Qaeda would want to shift attention away from the president's historic efforts and continued efforts to reach out and have an open dialogue with the Muslim world.\"",
"A U.S. counterterrorism official, asked about the statement, said Osama bin Laden's \"has timed the release of tapes to major events so it is not surprising that he picked this particular week.\"",
"Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language TV network that aired the message on Wednesday, said the statement was \"a voice recording by Osama bin Laden's.\"",
"As for the tape's authenticity, a CNN analysis said the voice does indeed sound like the leader of the terrorist network that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.",
"A U.S. counterterrorism official said \"there has never been a fake Osama bin Laden's tape.\"",
"The message comes as Obama begins his trip to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and, in Egypt on Thursday, making a major speech to the Muslim world.",
"Zeroing in on the conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where Pakistan's troops are taking on Taliban militants, The message asserts that Obama is proving that Obama is \"walking the same road of Obama's predecessors to build enmity against Muslims and increasing the number of fighters, and establishing more lasting wars.\"",
"The message said U.S. policy in Pakistan has generated \"new seeds of hatred and revenge against America.\"",
"The remarks -- which would be Osama bin Laden's's first assessment of Obama's policy -- were believed to have been recorded several weeks ago at the start of a mass civilian exodus because of fighting in northwestern Pakistan.",
"The speaker cites strikes, destruction, and Obama's \"order\" to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari \"to prevent the people of Swat from implementing sharia law.\"",
"\"All this led to the displacement of about a million Muslim elders, women and children from about a million Muslim elders, women and children's villages and homes.",
"about a million Muslim elders, women and children became refugees in tents after about a million Muslim elders, women and children were honored in about a million Muslim elders, women and children's own homes,\" The message says.",
"\"This basically means that Obama and Obama's administration put new seeds of hatred and revenge against America.",
"The number of these seeds is the same as the number of those victims and refugees in Swat and the tribal area in northern and southern Waziristan.\"",
"And, The message says, \"the American people need to prepare to only gain what those seeds bring up.\"",
"Watch what the speaker says on the tape » .",
"the speaker also says Zardari and Pakistan's military chief, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, continue to divert the army's main role from protecting Pakistan to fighting Islam and its followers.",
"the speaker says the war is also hurting Pakistan's economy, endangering Pakistan's religion and security and \"fulfilling an American, Jewish and Indian plot.\"",
"\"Most of the Pakistani people reject the war.",
"Zardari did this in response to the ones paying Zardari in the White House -- not 10 percent but multiple folds of that,\" The message says.",
"The message points to India's aspirations, saying it is \"easy for India to subject the disassembled territories of Pakistan, one after another, for India's own benefit, like the case of eastern Pakistan before, or even worse.\"",
"\"This way, America eases America's worry towards Pakistan's nuclear weapons,\" The message says.",
"eastern Pakistan is a reference to Bangladesh, which had been part of Pakistan until it became an independent country in 1971.",
"Pakistan and India have also been at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir, and pro-bin Laden jihadis have opposed Indian rule there.",
"Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy to Pakistan and India, said Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy to Pakistan and India hadn't listened to The message but commented on what Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy to Pakistan and India had heard about The message.",
"\"The idea that anyone is responsible for the refugee crisis other than al Qaeda and the Taliban and the other people who have caused such tragedy in western Pakistan is ludicrous,\" Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special envoy to Pakistan and India said.",
"\"This entire problem begins with al Qaeda and al Qaeda's associates, and everybody in the world knows that, and it's silly to even respond to such a ludicrous charge.\"",
"al Qaeda aired three separate segments totaling just over four minutes long from what al Qaeda said is a new Osama bin Laden's audiotape aired over an old still picture of the terrorist leader.",
"al Qaeda's anchors took part in describing each of the segments before al Qaeda ran them.",
"Since The message was not posted on the radical Islamist Web sites that usually carry statements from al Qaeda, it is believed that The message was hand-delivered to the TV network, based in Doha, Qatar.",
"In other purported Osama bin Laden's messages issued in March, Osama bin Laden's called for Somalia's new president to be overthrown and called Israel's recent offensive in Gaza a \"holocaust.\"",
"Osama bin Laden's has delivered many messages over the years, but the last video message from Osama bin Laden's was in early September 2007.",
"In the last video message from him, Osama bin Laden's criticized U.S. Democrats for failing to stop the war in Iraq; spoke of the anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II; the troop surge in Iraq; and world leaders such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.",
"On that tape, Osama bin Laden's's appearance was artificially changed for the first time.",
"Osama bin Laden's dyed Osama bin Laden's's beard from grayish white to black, leading analysts to believe that Osama bin Laden's has switched to sending only audio messages because Osama bin Laden's is altering Osama bin Laden's's looks and doesn't want people to know what Osama bin Laden's looks like.",
"Analysts also believe that Osama bin Laden's hasn't made videos lately because they are more labor-intensive to produce.",
"There have been gaps between videos from Osama bin Laden's, with many audio messages in between, each time prompting analysts to theorize Osama bin Laden's might be dead.",
"The last two videos of Osama bin Laden's delivering an address were the 2007 tape and another in 2004.",
"See a timeline of Osama bin Laden's messages » .",
"A U.S. counterterrorism official said of the latest purported Osama bin Laden's tape that \"while the words are different\" from other messages, this statement \"recycles the broad themes of messages past.\"",
"\"While we are still looking at the statement closely, there is no reason to believe any specific or credible threat is contained in the statement,\" A U.S. counterterrorism official said.",
"Al Qaeda's second in command issued an audio statement Tuesday saying Obama is not welcome in Egypt.",
"Ayman al-Zawahiri said relations with America cannot be mended so long as the administration maintains its alliance with Israel.",
"In a message called \"Tyrants of Egypt and America's agents welcome Obama\" that was posted on Islamist Web sites, Ayman al-Zawahiri once again lashed out at America.",
"Obama's message to the Muslim world, Ayman al-Zawahiri said, has already been delivered with Obama's support for \"Zionist aggression.\"",
"In the 10-minute audio message, Ayman al-Zawahiri said Obama had already made Obama an enemy of Muslims by sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, ordering bombings in the tribal areas of Pakistan and administering a \"bloody campaign against Muslims\" in Pakistan's Swat Valley.",
"CNN's Octavia Nasr and Jeanne Meserve contributed to this report."
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"Analysis of tape indicates that voice sounds like Osama bin Laden's .",
"Purported tape from terror leader surfaces as President Obama visits Mideast .",
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose re-election last month led to massive protests",
"on Tuesday called the balloting \"the most free election anywhere in the world.\"",
"Iranian president was re-elected last month, setting off days of protests.",
"\"It was a great event,\" Iranian president said in a nationally televised address.",
"The election, which opponents charge was rigged, was followed by street demonstrations and civil unrest that led to the deaths of at least 20 protesters and the arrest of more than 1,000, according to Iranian state-run media.",
"The numbers of casualties and arrests could not be independently verified by CNN because Iran banned coverage by international journalists.",
"The president, who said voter turnout was 85 percent, said opponents \"did not provide even one piece of document regarding irregularities or vote fraud.\"",
"Without specifically mentioning the post-election violence, Iranian president said criticism of government \"is the key to the success of a nation.\"",
"Everyone has criticisms, Iranian president said.",
"\"I have my own.\"",
"But Iranian president accused the \"arrogant powers\" and \"enemies\" of Iran of interfering in Iranian president's country's affairs, including the post-election situation.",
"Some Iranians collaborated with enemies, Iranian president said.",
"Iranian president also said Tuesday Iranian president believes Iran should be \"substantially\" reorganized.",
"Although Iranian president didn't elaborate, Iranian president said the areas of employment, housing, development and civil rights were high on the agenda.",
"\"[Iran] need to create newer capacities and prepare Iran for this new period,\" Iranian president said, apparently referring to Iranian president's upcoming second term in office.",
"\"With this election, Iran have entered a new era ... in domestic spheres and on an international level,\" Iranian president added.",
"Iranian president called it \"an era of solidarity.\"",
"\"Iran is at the service of the entire people,\" Iranian president said.",
"\"Things will be done in a better way, more effective way, so we can reach higher aspirations.\"",
"Iranian president said experts have been invited to help Iran achieve progress."
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"(Tribune Media Services) --",
"While most first-time visitors to Europe choo-choose to travel by train, consider the convenience of driving.",
"Behind the wheel you're totally free, going where you want, when you want.",
"When drivers come off a ferry in Great Britain or Ireland, drivers usually see a sign warning drivers to drive on the left.",
"Driving in the British Isles is wonderful -- once you remember to stay on the left and after you've mastered the roundabouts.",
"But be warned: Every year I get some emails from traveling readers advising me that, for traveling readers, trying to drive in Great Britain and Ireland was a nerve-wracking and regrettable mistake.",
"Here's a tip: If you want to get a little slack on the roads, drop by a gas station or auto shop and buy a green \"P\" (probationary driver with license) sign to put in your car window.",
"Of course, in Great Britain and Ireland you'll be driving on the left-hand side of the road.",
"Why that side?",
"Originally, it was in order for you to drive defensively ... with your \"sword hand\" on the inside to protect you against oncoming traffic.",
"Many Yankee drivers find the hardest part isn't driving on the left, but steering from the right.",
"Your instinct is to put yourself on the left side of your lane, which means you may spend your first day or two constantly drifting off the road to the left.",
"It can help to remember that the driver always stays close to the center line.",
"Not only will you be driving on the left, but you'll also be using roundabouts, where traffic continually flows in a circle around a center island.",
"These work well if you follow the golden rule: Traffic in roundabouts always has the right-of-way, while entering vehicles yield.",
"For some drivers, roundabouts are high-pressure traffic circles that require a snap decision about something you don't completely understand: your exit.",
"To replace the stress with giggles, make it standard operating procedure to take a 360-degree, case-out-your-options exploratory circuit.",
"Discuss the exits with your navigator, go around again if necessary, and then confidently wing off on the exit of your choice.",
"Whenever possible, avoid driving in cities.",
"London even assesses a congestion charge -- about $13 per day -- to drive in the city center (see www.cclondon.com).",
"It's best and less stressful to begin your driving experience away from big cities, so try renting your car in a smaller town.",
"A pleasant scenario for a Great Britain itinerary would be to start your trip in a small town such as Bath, rent a car when leaving Bath, explore Great Britain at your leisure by car, then drop off a car in York, and take the train into London, where you can rely on the excellent public transportation system.",
"Outside of the big cities and the motorways (freeways), British and Irish roads tend to be narrow.",
"Adjust your perceptions of personal space.",
"It's not \"my side of the road\" or \"your side of the road.\"",
"It's just \"the road\" -- and it's shared as a cooperative adventure.",
"In towns, you may have to cross over the center line just to get past parked cars.",
"Sometimes both directions of traffic can pass parked cars simultaneously, but frequently you'll have to take turns -- follow the locals' lead and drive defensively.",
"On rural roads, locals are usually courteous, pulling over against a hedgerow and blinking locals's headlights for you to pass while locals wait.",
"Return the favor when you are closer to a wide spot in the road than locals are.",
"Do some homework before getting behind the wheel; buy good maps and check various mapping Web sites, including Michelin's site and Google Maps.",
"A GPS device can also be helpful.",
"You'll notice some differences between driving in the Republic of Ireland versus the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland).",
"In the Republic of Ireland, the speed limit is in kilometers per hour, road signs are usually bilingual (but not always -- \"geill sli\" means yield), and roads are more likely to be bumpy and poorly maintained.",
"In the United Kingdom, the speed limit is in miles per hour, signs are in English (except in Wales, where they are bilingual), and roads are generally in better condition.",
"Even if you don't drive, as a pedestrian you'll have to remember that among our British and Irish cousins' many unusual habits, traffic comes from the opposite direction -- look both ways before crossing any street.",
"Horror stories about British and Irish traffic abound.",
"Horror stories about British and Irish traffic're fun to tell, but driving here is really only a problem for those who make it one.",
"The most dangerous creature on the road is the panicked American.",
"Drive defensively, observe, fit in, avoid big-city driving when you can and wear your seat belt.",
"Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.",
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"Copyright 2009 RICK STEVES, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC."
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"Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows .",
"Rick Steves's TV series, \"Rick Steves's Europe,\" airs on PBS stations .",
"Rick Steves's company, Europe Through the Back Door, conducts European tours ."
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"(CNN) --",
"A University of Memphis football player was shot and killed on campus Sunday night, prompting administration officials to cancel classes and plead for anyone with information to come forward.",
"Police said defensive lineman Taylor Bradford, 21, apparently was shot around 9:45 p.m. (10:45 ET) Sunday.",
"The 5-foot-11-inch, 300-pound junior apparently then got into A University of Memphis football player's car, drove a short distance and hit a tree near the campus residence hall area.",
"Bradford, of Nashville, Tennessee, was pronounced dead at Regional Medical Center.",
"University of Memphis locked down the residence halls and canceled classes for Monday as an \"early precaution\" against the possibility there was an armed attacker on campus, university President Shirley Raines said.",
"university President Shirley Raines said University of Memphis did not activate University of Memphis's newly installed emergency public address system because university police determined the campus was not in imminent danger.",
"Witnesses told police Witnesses saw people Witnesses suspect were the assailants fleeing the scene, university President Shirley Raines said.",
"University police said the Memphis Police Department's homicide bureau is assisting in the investigation.",
"Officials said Officials hope that surveillance cameras in the area will yield clues.",
"Memphis Director of Police Services Larry Godwin said that because such crimes are rare on the university campus A University of Memphis football player \"may very well have been targeted.\"",
"\"We're looking at everything,\" Memphis Director of Police Services Larry Godwin said.",
"\"We're hoping that someone will step forward with some information to point us in the right direction.\"",
"Residence halls reopened early Monday, and classes are expected to resume Tuesday.",
"On Monday, offices at the university were open so students could have access to counseling and talk with faculty and staff, said university spokesman Curt Guenther.",
"university President Shirley Raines said she and head football coach Tommy West met with A University of Memphis football player's parents and other family members to express their condolences.",
"head football coach Tommy West said A University of Memphis football player was \"very popular within our team, very popular on the university campus.",
"Very upbeat, very up-tempo personality.",
"Always smiling, always talking.",
"Very well-liked on the university campus.\"",
"Bradford, a marketing major, transferred to University of Memphis from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, according to the Univeristy of Memphis football team's Web site.",
"University of Memphis had 20,562 students last fall and about 2,500 employees, according to the Univeristy of Memphis football team's Web site.",
"On September 21 two students at Delaware State University were wounded in shootings.",
"There will be a moment of silence at Tuesday night's scheduled football game against Marshall University to honor A University of Memphis football player.",
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"BUCHENWALD, Germany (CNN) --",
"Obama made an emotional visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, Friday, saying that the camp should serve as a reminder of humanity's duty to fight the spread of evil.",
"Obama visits Buchenwald with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and survivor and activist Elie Wiesel.",
"The visit had personal significance for the president, whose great-uncle helped liberate prisoners from Germany during World War II.",
"\"I will not forget what I've seen here today,\" Obama said after touring the camp with German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, and survivor Bertrand Herz.",
"\"These sites have not lose These sites's horror with the passage of time,\" Obama said.",
"\"This place teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our times.",
"... We have to guard against cruelty in ourselves ....\"",
"Watch Obama honor Holocaust victims » .",
"Wiesel, whose father died at Buchenwald, was imprisoned at Germany during the final months of the war in 1945.",
"\"Every war is absurd and meaningless,\" Elie Wiesel said.",
"\"The world hasn't learned. ...",
"Had The world learned, there would have been no Cambodia and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia.\"",
"Like Obama, Elie Wiesel stressed that the lessons of Germany are that humanity must unite to keep such atrocities from happening again and work toward making the 21st century \"filled with promise and infinite hope.\"",
"\"Memory must bring people together, rather than set people apart.",
"Memories here not to sow anger in our hearts, but on the contrary, a sense of solidarity with all those who need us,\" Elie Wiesel said.",
"Obama told reporters earlier in the day that Obama's great-uncle, Charles Payne, had a \"very difficult time re-adjusting to civilian life\" after helping his Army division liberate the Ohrdruf forced labor camp, a subdivision of Germany .",
"\"And it is now up to us, the living, in our work, wherever we are, to resist injustice and intolerance and indifference in whatever forms they may take and ensure that those who were lost here did not go in vain.\"",
"Later Friday, Obama traveled in Germany to Ramstein Air Base and visited with wounded American troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.",
"Obama then moved on to Paris, France, ahead of D-Day commemoration services on Saturday.",
"Obama began Obama's tour of the Middle East and Europe in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, before moving on to Egypt, where on Thursday Obama delivered a key speech on American and Muslim relations.",
"In the 55-minute address -- billed as a fence-mending effort between the United States and Islam -- Obama urged those in the Cairo audience and the people across the globe viewing the speech on television to enter a new, productive and peaceful chapter of relations.",
"CNN's Ed Henry contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) --",
"Rob is a busy guy -- so busy, Rob apparently hasn't had much time to check in with Rob's Matchbox Twenty bandmates.",
"Rob prefers to focus on the \"musician\" side of Rob's career, rather than \"celebrity.\"",
"We only know this because we ran into guitarist Paul Doucette at the BMI Pop Awards in Beverly Hills several weeks ago, where he was picking up a plaque for songwriter of the year.",
"\"We're interviewing Rob about Rob's solo album,\" I told him.",
"\"Hey,\" guitarist Paul Doucette exclaimed.",
"\"Tell that guy to call me, would you?",
"I didn't even know Rob was in L.A.!\"",
"By the time we met up with Rob the next day, Rob and guitarist Paul Doucette had already connected over drinks somewhere between midnight and the morning -- musician's hours.",
"Rob recently released \"Cradlesong,\" new album's second solo CD.",
"Even though Rob's clearly excited about it, Rob spends as much time talking about Matchbox Twenty as Rob does the solo album new album's in town to promote.",
"For the 37-year-old singer-songwriter, it's all interconnected.",
"One has fed into the other since Rob gained household name status a decade ago, after scoring a massive, Grammy-winning hit with Carlos Santana on \"Smooth.\"",
"Watch Rob describe the difference between being a celebrity and a musician » .",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN:",
"Who has given you the best piece of advice?",
"Rob:",
"Carlos [Santana] will constantly send you messages out of nowhere.",
"Carlos will call me at 10 at night and be like, \"Listen, I had a dream about you, and so much good is happening, but there's dark forces at work, and when you get out of here, I have this woman who wants to cleanse you.\"",
"I think Carlos's most important piece of advice ever was that Carlos taught me the difference between being a celebrity and being a famous musician.",
"CNN:",
"But some artists don't have that kind of success, and some artists try for celebrity instead.",
"Rob:",
"Sure, and sometimes that works -- but none of my favorites have done that.",
"I remember when Matchbox Twenty started years ago, and Matchbox Twenty had a lot of success, but nobody knew who Matchbox Twenty were.",
"The first time Matchbox Twenty did an interview with MTV, it was about how no one knew who Matchbox Twenty were.",
"Matchbox Twenty had sold 8 million records.",
"I don't know if Matchbox Twenty were being naive at the time, but Matchbox Twenty thought Matchbox Twenty'd won because Matchbox Twenty's songs were more famous than Matchbox Twenty were.",
"I'm much more known for the music that I make than what I do with my life.",
"It's never, \"Oh yeah, I've been seeing you in [the New York Post gossip column] Page Six at these clubs that you go to\" or \"I know who you're sleeping with.\"",
"CNN:",
"When you became famous for being Rob the solo artist, did that cause problems within the band?",
"Rob:",
"No.",
"I think the guys would rather it be me than the guys.",
"None of the guys want the job, and the guys realize that the job's working now.",
"the guys have a singer.",
"I can go out and do it [publicity] for the guys, and the guys're fine with it.",
"the guys can stay home.",
"I think there's nothing more attractive than wealth and anonymity.",
"If I'm not out supporting my work, I really don't want people to see me.",
"I go to movie premieres -- my wife and I -- all the time, and nine out of 10 of those movie premieres, much to my publicist's dismay, I get there, but I sneak around the pictures and get into the party [using the back entrance].",
"If I have a record coming out, I'll go in front of the cameras, and I'll say, \"Hi!",
"Hey, I'm at this movie premiere.\"",
"I liken it to being a switch that I can move on and off.",
"CNN:",
"What has doing a solo project enabled you to do that you can't do with a band?",
"Rob:",
"I get to pick my own schedule, and that's nice.",
"Matchbox Twenty -- it's four lead singers, there's four front men, and everybody's tastes, everybody's schedule, everybody's personal life comes into account when you're doing something like that.",
"We all live [in four different cities] ... so we literally have to pull ourselves up from all over the country and go somewhere, just to get us into a room to write.",
"And you have to not think you're so great so you don't get upset when somebody doesn't like your stuff.",
"Like \"Her Diamonds\" -- one of the singles on this solo album -- is one of my favorite songs that I've ever written, and the guys loved the song, but didn't want to play the song.",
"[the guys said,] \"When you do a new solo record, you should put it on there.",
"It doesn't sound like a song the guys would do right now.\"",
"And the guys were right.",
"When we put together the last Matchbox record, it was much more of a rock record.",
"CNN:",
"What's the most surprising thing on your iPod?",
"Thomas: Britney Spears.",
"Come on!",
"\"Toxic,\" man, is just one of the baddest tracks ever!",
"I remember the first time we listened to \"... Baby One More Time.\" ...",
"We were like, \"Oh, let's go play Britney Spears on the piano!\"",
"And we all come over drinking, and after a couple of minutes, we're like, \"Britney Spears is a lot harder than we thought!\"",
"CNN:",
"Whose career would you like to emulate?",
"Thomas:",
"Tom Petty is a famous musician.",
"Tom Petty's not a music celebrity.",
"When Tom Petty walks down the street, you know that it's Tom Petty, but it would be like, \"Oh my gosh, it's Tom Petty!",
"I love Tom Petty, right on!\"",
"It would never be like, \"Aaaaaaaah!\" -- and 3 million teenage girls follow Tom Petty down the street."
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"Thomas says Matchbox Twenty is still very much together .",
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"WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) --",
"An anti-abortion activist suspected in the death of Kansas doctor George Tiller told CNN on Tuesday the closing of Tiller's women's clinic is \"a victory for all the unborn children.\"",
"Scott Roeder, charged in the death of Tiller, spoke to CNN on Tuesday.",
"Scott Roeder, 51, would not admit to CNN's Ted Rowlands that Scott Roeder killed Tiller, who was gunned down at Tiller's church May 31.",
"But Scott Roeder said if Scott Roeder is convicted in Tiller's slaying, \"the entire motive was the defense of the unborn.\"",
"Family said Tuesday the clinic Tiller headed will permanently close, effective immediately, and Family would issue no more statements.",
"At the time Scott Roeder was interviewed Tuesday, word of the permanent closure had not come out -- but when told Tiller's women's clinic had been shuttered since Tiller's death, Scott Roeder said, \"Good.\"",
"Scott Roeder said the permanent closure would mean \"no more slicing and dicing of the unborn child in the mother's womb and no more needles of poison into the baby's heart to stop the heart from beating, and no more partial-birth abortions.\"",
"Watch CNN's Ted Rowlands describe Scott Roeder's mood during interview » .",
"Dan Monnat, Tiller's attorney, declined to respond to Scott Roeder's comments on Family's behalf.",
"But in an e-mail, he added, \"Speaking for myself ... I am reluctant to in any way legitimize Mr. Roeder, or anything Scott Roeder stands for, by directly responding to Scott Roeder's statements.",
"\"I am content to let law enforcement determine whether anything Scott Roeder says merits attention.",
"I do not encourage anyone else to give Mr. Roeder or Scott Roeder's extremist views any additional attention as Scott Roeder awaits trial,\" Monnat wrote.",
"Tiller, 67, was one of the few U.S. doctors who performed late-term abortions.",
"Tiller had already survived one attempt on Tiller's life before Tiller was slain, and the announcement by Tiller's family dismayed supporters of abortion rights.",
"Nancy Keenan, the president of Washington-based NARAL Pro-Choice America, called Tiller's killing \"part of an ongoing pattern of extreme anti-choice violence and intimidation\" aimed at depriving women of a legal medical option.",
"\"It is a sad day for our country when family members who stood by their husband and father as Tiller endured countless anti-choice attacks are forced as a result of Tiller's murder to make a decision like this one,\" Nancy Keenan, the president of Washington-based NARAL Pro-Choice America said in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon.",
"Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, expressed hope that other doctors \"will be brave enough to come forward and continue Tiller's critical work of providing services to women.\"",
"\"It is unacceptable that anti-abortion intimidation and violence has led to the closing of Tiller's clinic.",
"It illustrates the ongoing harassment endured by abortion providers and the resulting disservice to women across our country,\" Northup said.",
"Roeder is jailed on first-degree murder and aggravated assault charges in Tiller's death.",
"A Kansas judge earlier this month set his bail at $5 million.",
"Family said Tuesday it is \"proud of the service and courage shown by Family's husband and father,\" and that it would honor Tiller's memory \"through private charitable activities.\"",
"The statement promised Tiller's patients \"that the privacy of his patients's medical histories and patient records will remain as fiercely protected now and in the future as the privacy of their medical histories and patient records were during Dr. Tiller's lifetime.\"",
"Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said he and his staff \"fully respect and understand\" the family's decision.",
"\"Family's loss is immense -- Family have lost a husband, father, grandfather and hero,\" Brownlie said in a statement.",
"But the closure of Tiller's clinic \"creates a significant gap in access for women and families in Kansas,\" he continued.",
"\"No one is providing that service between Kansas City and Denver.\"",
"Most of the leading U.S. anti-abortion groups have condemned Tiller's killing and disavowed Roeder, saying U.S. anti-abortion groups wanted Tiller's clinic shut down, but through peaceful means.",
"Troy Newman, the president of one of those organizations, Operation Rescue, said in a statement on the group's Web site Tuesday that Newman's group is \"thankful that Tiller's clinic will not reopen and thankful that Wichita is now abortion-free.\"",
"But Newman added, \"This is a bittersweet moment for the group at Operation Rescue.",
"the group have worked very hard for this day, but the group wish this day would have come through the peaceful, legal channels the group were pursuing.\"",
"Operation Rescue and other Kansas anti-abortion activists had supported a criminal investigation by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, a petition drive to empanel a special grand jury to investigate the practice and efforts to get his medical license revoked.",
"On its Web site, the group referred to Tiller as a \"monster\" who had \"been able to get away with murder.\"",
"But in a New York Times interview last week, Newman said closing Tiller's women's clinic because of the shooting would be cause for concern.",
"\"Good God, do not close Tiller's women's clinic for this reason,\" Newman said.",
"\"Every kook in the world will get some notion.\"",
"Scott Roeder met with Rowlands for a half-hour Tuesday, talking on a phone through security glass at the Sedgwick County jail where Scott Roeder is being held.",
"Scott Roeder initially was reluctant to talk, as Scott Roeder said Scott Roeder had been misquoted in another interview.",
"But Scott Roeder gradually opened up, noting that Scott Roeder was giving the interview against the advice of Scott Roeder's defense attorney.",
"Scott Roeder told CNN Scott Roeder is \"feeling good,\" and getting encouraging letters from people around the country, many of whom Scott Roeder does not know.",
"But Scott Roeder complained about conditions in the Sedgwick County jail where he is being held, saying Scott Roeder doesn't like being in solitary confinement and that the Sedgwick County jail where he is being held is \"freezing.\"",
"Associates have told CNN that Scott Roeder was a regular among the protesters who routinely gathered at Tiller's clinic.",
"Scott Roeder's former roommate, Eddie Ebecher, has told CNN Scott Roeder was \"obsessed\" with Tiller and in the past had debated whether to kill him.",
"Relatives said Scott Roeder had suffered from mental illness over the years and had refused treatment at times.",
"Scott Roeder served prison time in Kansas in the late 1990s after being arrested with explosives in Scott Roeder's car, but Scott Roeder's conviction was overturned on appeal.",
"But Scott Roeder said Tuesday that reports Scott Roeder has mental illness or schizophrenia are \"totally wrong.\"",
"Scott Roeder acknowledged having a drug problem at one point, but said Scott Roeder has been off drugs since Scott Roeder was 28 years old and has no mental illness.",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands said he attempted to discuss Tiller's death with Scott Roeder, pointing out that there were witnesses to the shooting and its aftermath who claim they saw Scott Roeder leaving the scene and got a license plate from his car.",
"Scott Roeder nodded, CNN's Ted Rowlands said, but still would not admit any culpability.",
"But \"Scott Roeder didn't say, 'I didn't do it,' \" CNN's Ted Rowlands said.",
"\"Scott Roeder didn't say, 'Get me out of here, I'm the wrong guy.' \"",
"Federal civil rights prosecutors have launched an investigation into Tiller's slaying, the Justice Department has said.",
"The inquiry will focus on violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and other applicable federal laws.",
"Scott Roeder was concerned about the possibility of federal charges, saying Scott Roeder's lawyer has warned Scott Roeder that Scott Roeder will be facing them if Scott Roeder doesn't stop talking.",
"CNN's Michael Cary contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Nancy Grace's is the host of \"Nancy Grace\" on HLN nightly at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.",
"Read an excerpt from Nancy Grace's's new novel \"The Eleventh Victim\" published by Hyperion.",
"Nancy Grace's found it challenging to complete Nancy Grace's's first novel, \"The Eleventh Victim.\"",
"(CNN)",
"-- Readers of Nancy Grace's's debut novel, \"The Eleventh Victim,\" would be forgiven if they assumed the main character is based on Nancy Grace's.",
"After all, the heroine of the novel becomes an Atlanta, Georgia, district attorney after her fiancé is murdered and later relocates to New York for a fresh start.",
"But Nancy Grace's said there are some differences between Nancy Grace's and Hailey's protagonist.",
"\"Hailey is a much better person than I am,\" Nancy Grace's said.",
"The tough-as-nails anchor of the HLN show that bears Nancy Grace's's name was driven to complete Nancy Grace's's first book of fiction, which Nancy Grace's said has been in the works for almost a decade.",
"The novel centers on the character of Hailey Dean, a psychology student who becomes a prosecutor after the tragic murder of Hailey's fiancé just weeks before their wedding.",
"The mystery takes flight when Hailey, having relocated to Manhattan and trained as a therapist, discovers that Hailey's patients are being murdered in a copycat style of an Atlanta serial killer from Hailey's past.",
"Grace -- who is also the author of the nonfiction book \"Objection!\" -- recently spoke to CNN about the challenges of giving birth to both twins and a thriller, who might die in Nancy Grace's's next novel and what Nancy Grace's thinks about television shows like \"Saturday Night Live\" parodying Nancy Grace's.",
"CNN:",
"You are a working mother of two year-old twins.",
"How in the world did you find time to write a book?",
"Nancy Grace:",
"It was hard work.",
"I had done \"Objection\" and I had an idea for a second nonfiction.",
"I went back to my editor and I said \"Here's an idea for another nonfiction.\"",
"She said \"Yeah, it's OK, you got anything else?\"",
"I said \"No, but I do have an old manuscript I've been working on for a long time, a murder mystery.\"",
"I told her it's not finished yet, I have about 300 pages.",
"I took it over that day and the next day they told me they wanted a two-book series on Hailey Dean.",
"Then I thought \"Oh Lord, now I've got to finish it.\"",
"That happened around the time I got pregnant.",
"Watch Nancy Grace's discuss Nancy Grace's's new book » .",
"I had a difficult pregnancy.",
"I was in a wheelchair, I threw up every day, I broke my foot during a difficult pregnancy, so a lot of crazy things happened.",
"Finally, after the twins came, the deadline came.",
"I literally had to sit in the bed with the computer and force Nancy Grace's to finish it.",
"I knew what was going to happen in each of the four storylines, but I had to get there.",
"I would be up sometimes until 3 or 4 in the morning.",
"the twins, one would wake up, by the time I would get that one fed and down, the other one would wake up and then it was time to get up at 5:30.",
"CNN:",
"You said you knew who did it in terms of the mystery early on in the writing.",
"So how did the book change during its development?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"The characters really developed.",
"It's like getting to know a person.",
"Read an excerpt from the novel .",
"There are certain things Hailey simply would not do.",
"You get to know your characters and your characters become richer and more intricate because you get to know the character.",
"I would not do anything that was out of character for your characters.",
"CNN:",
"The plot and the settings sound very familiar to your own life.",
"How much of you is in Hailey?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"Hailey is a much better person than I am, I can tell you that much.",
"Hailey's very brave.",
"Hailey thinks Hailey's way out of difficult and almost impossible situations, Hailey's courageous and Hailey's witty.",
"I would say it's loosely based, but Hailey's a much better heroine than I could ever be.",
"CNN:",
"What is more difficult, writing nonfiction or fiction?",
"Nancy Grace's:",
"It is definitely harder to write fiction.",
"With nonfiction you deal with facts already in existence, but with fiction you have to create everything.",
"Details like what color somebody's hair was to how hot it was that day.",
"A lot of ideas for the book would come to Nancy Grace's in the middle of the night and I forgot some of them so often that I now sleep with my two BlackBerrys near the bed.",
"I've learned my lesson the hard way, so I will now write Nancy Grace's my book notes in the middle of the night.",
"CNN:",
"Is there anything that didn't make it into this book that you wished had?",
"Grace:",
"Yes, but don't worry because I saved it for the next book, which will be set in the television industry.",
"There's going to be a lot of dead TV executives (laughing).",
"CNN:",
"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so what are your thoughts on having been parodied?",
"Grace:",
"It's funny to Nancy Grace's.",
"Everything from YouTube to \"Boston Legal\" and \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"It's very flattering that they would think enough to make fun of Nancy Grace's.",
"I want [rapper] Eminem to make fun of Nancy Grace's, but I don't think it would be very nice (laughing)."
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"Nancy Grace's says main character \"is a much better person than I am\"",
"The thriller was almost a decade in the making .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Britons, Germans and other tourists on Mallorca \"can feel safe because Britons, Germans and other tourists on the Spanish island of Mallorca aren't targets of the ETA terrorist band,\" which recently bombed the popular resort, Spain's interior minister said Tuesday.",
"Police cordon off the route leading to the location of the blasts in Mallorca.",
"\"People should feel safe because security forces are on top of this,\" Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told a nationally-televised news conference in Madrid.",
"Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba's comments followed the Sunday explosions on Mallorca of what Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said were four small ETA bombs that caused no injuries, and two weeks after an ETA car bomb killed two Civil Guard officers on Mallorca.",
"But Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said police aren't sure if the ETA militants behind the bombings remain in hiding on Mallorca or have left, and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba warned repeatedly that ETA could attack again.",
"\"We are on maximum alert in Mallorca and the rest of Spain,\" Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.",
"\"ETA, when it can, attacks, so you can't rule out that ETA won't attack again.",
"We try to prevent ETA from doing so.\"",
"Watch background behind ETA's decades-long struggle » .",
"Mallorca's regional government told CNN on Monday that since the bombings, there have been no \"significant\" tourist cancellations.",
"Tens of thousands of Britons and Germans are vacationing on Mallorca, as is Spain's King Juan Carlos and the royal family.",
"ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths in ETA's long fight for Basque independence.",
"Police initially attributed three small bombs on Sunday to ETA, which is listed as a terrorist group by Spain, the United States and the European Union.",
"But Tuesday, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba confirmed that police believe a fourth bomb also was ETA's work.",
"Some local authorities initially thought it might have been just an accidental gas explosion.",
"Three of three small bombs exploded in the restrooms of restaurants and a bar in the main city, Palma de Mallorca, and the other was placed in the restroom of an underground commercial area beneath a main square.",
"Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba revealed that at least one of three small bombs was in a male lavatory; previously it was reported three small bombs were all in women's restrooms.",
"Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said one of the three warning calls on Sunday preceding the bombings came from near Bordeaux, France --- ETA's traditional rear-guard base.",
"The warning calls, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba added, provided only scant details about three small bombs's locations to police.",
"The four small bombs were activated by timers, and one of them was hidden in a bar that had been closed since Friday.",
"Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba reiterated the government's position that \"the bombings don't do anything but strengthen our determination.",
"Those who placed three small bombs will spend long years in jail and recent experience says Those who placed the bombs will.\"",
"ETA has been battered over the past 16 months by arrests of four suspected top ETA military chiefs and dozens of militants.",
"Hours before Sunday's bombs, ETA claimed responsibility for a series of bombings across Spain in June and July: the one that killed two Civil Guard officers, another that killed a police officer, and another that heavily damaged a Civil Guard barracks, slightly wounded dozens, including children.",
"In a statement released to the Basque newspaper Gara, ETA said those attacks were in retaliation for the Socialist government's crackdown on ETA's ranks.",
"ETA said, \"What ETA has been looking for during long decades is a negotiated political solution.\"",
"But Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba recently ruled out a resumption of negotiations that Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba's government tried without success in 2006 during an ETA cease-fire.",
"Spanish media last week cited numerous politicians and analysts who suggested that ETA's recent spate of violence might be trying to force ETA back to the negotiating table."
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"on Tuesday called the balloting \"the most free election anywhere in the world.\"",
"Iranian president was re-elected last month, setting off days of protests.",
"\"It was a great event,\" Iranian president said in a nationally televised address.",
"The election, which opponents charge was rigged, was followed by street demonstrations and civil unrest that led to the deaths of at least 20 protesters and the arrest of more than 1,000, according to Iranian state-run media.",
"The numbers of casualties and arrests could not be independently verified by CNN because Iran banned coverage by international journalists.",
"The president, who said voter turnout was 85 percent, said opponents \"did not provide even one piece of document regarding irregularities or vote fraud.\"",
"Without specifically mentioning the post-election violence, Iranian president said criticism of government \"is the key to the success of a nation.\"",
"Everyone has criticisms, Iranian president said.",
"\"I have my own.\"",
"But Iranian president accused the \"arrogant powers\" and \"enemies\" of Iran of interfering in Iranian president's country's affairs, including the post-election situation.",
"Some Iranians collaborated with enemies, Iranian president said.",
"Iranian president also said Tuesday Iranian president believes Iran should be \"substantially\" reorganized.",
"Although Iranian president didn't elaborate, Iranian president said the areas of employment, housing, development and civil rights were high on the agenda.",
"\"[Iran] need to create newer capacities and prepare Iran for this new period,\" Iranian president said, apparently referring to Iranian president's upcoming second term in office.",
"\"With this election, Iran have entered a new era ... in domestic spheres and on an international level,\" Iranian president added.",
"Iranian president called it \"an era of solidarity.\"",
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"\"Things will be done in a better way, more effective way, so we can reach higher aspirations.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"A tsunami watch issued for five nations after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean was canceled about two hours later.",
"A tsunami watch in effect after an earthquake in the Indian Ocean has been called off.",
"The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had issued the watch for India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Bangladesh after the quake, which struck at 1:55 a.m. Tuesday (3:55 p.m. Monday ET).",
"Its epicenter was about 163 miles (262 km) north of Port Blair in India's Andaman Islands, and 225 miles south-southwest of Pathein, Myanmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"The earthquake's focus was about 20 miles below the Earth's surface.",
"In general, earthquakes centered closer to the Earth's surface produce stronger shaking and can cause more damage than those further underground.",
"Watch where the earthquakes hit » .",
"\"Sea level readings indicate that a significant tsunami was not generated,\" The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin.",
"\"Therefore, the tsunami watch issued by The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is now canceled.\"",
"According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 6.4-magnitude quake struck near the south coast of Honshu, Japan, 12 minutes after the Indian Ocean quake.",
"The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory following a 6.4-magnitude quake, but said that the expected wave would be under 2 feet.",
"CNN's Augie Martin contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: Jack D. Hidary co-founded a technology company, Earth Web/Dice, and a financial research company, Vista Research.",
"Jack Hidary works currently in the fields of clean energy technology and policy and is chairman of SmartTransportation.org which successfully pushed for the use of hybrid cars as taxis in New York City.",
"Jack Hidary says the Cash for Clunkers program promotes fuel economy and safety while boosting the economy.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"the country's country is facing a daunting economic challenge this year and the country must take steps to pull the country out of this ditch.",
"One such program that has hit the ground running is the program.",
"the program's helping consumers move beyond these hard times and has reignited a whole industry.",
"the program is now working in more than 10 countries around the world.",
"In Germany, consumers have junked more than 1.2 million guzzlers in the last five months and significantly boosted the economy there.",
"So we know that Clunkers programs get the job done.",
"How many other government programs can you say that about?",
"The Senate has joined the House in passing an additional $2 billion for the program, allowing the program to move forward.",
"This will bring additional buyers to the showroom.",
"One key feature of the program is that the program is not just $3 billion of new money into the economy.",
"It is injecting $21 billion -- since consumers must bring the rest of the money to pay for the new car.",
"That is a lot of stimulus for the dollar.",
"the program is saving jobs up and down the auto supply chain: from dealers to assembly workers and parts markers.",
"Dealerships alone lost 50,000 jobs in the last 18 months and would continue to shed jobs without the program.",
"If you look at the new cars consumers are buying with the program, 45 percent are from Detroit's Big Three automakers.",
"That is a lot of new sales for Ford, GM and Chrysler.",
"the program also helps autoworkers across the country.",
"Let's remember that lots of the Toyotas and Hondas sold in the program are made by American workers right here in the country.",
"They are in states such as Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.",
"the program helps all American autoworkers, not just those up North.",
"Some people ask why we should help the auto industry and not other industries in this same way.",
"the program actually helps all of us -- even those of us who do not participate in the program or work in the auto industry.",
"First, the auto industry has so many connected jobs in real estate, finance, manufacturing and other industries, that is hard to separate the auto industry out.",
"Second, one of the biggest drags on the country's economy is the country's trade imbalance.",
"the country import about $700 billion more than the country export.",
"That hurts our capital flows, credit and other key indicators.",
"Guess what amounts to 50 percent of that trade imbalance?",
"Oil.",
"the country use 21 million barrels of oil every day in the United States and import 62 percent of that -- mainly from countries that really don't like the country.",
"the country use that oil mainly for transportation -- cars, SUVs, and other vehicles.",
"Unless we scrap guzzlers at a faster rate, we will never reduce our oil consumption.",
"the program is a step in the right direction.",
"the program educates the consumer on how much the consumer are paying for having a low-MPG car and encourages the consumer to get into a more efficient vehicle.",
"A family can save $750-$1,000 a year by jumping just 10 mpg in efficiency.",
"Those savings will increase as gas prices go back up.",
"Gas has already shot up from $1.50 a gallon to $2.60.",
"Do you want to be stuck with a 10 mile-per-gallon guzzler when gas jumps back to $4 a gallon?",
"Third, the program saves lives.",
"When you bring in a clunker that has no airbags, anti-lock brakes or other modern safety features and get a new car that does, you are protecting your family.",
"Forty thousand people die every year on American highways and many more get serious injuries.",
"You can reduce your chances of becoming a statistic by getting the most safety for your dollar -- and with the program you can now do that more affordably.",
"As a co-architect of the federal Cash for Clunkers program with the Center for American Progress and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and adviser to various congressional offices on the issue, it is gratifying to see how quickly the program has been adopted by the American people.",
"the program achieves multiple goals -- the program stimulates auto sales, increases the efficiency of the U.S. fleet and makes us safer.",
"Let's support the program by encouraging our friends and neighbors to finally retire that guzzler and help the country with the purchase of a cleaner, lower maintenance car for the future.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jack D. Hidary."
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"Jack Hidary says getting clunkers off the road will help decrease dependence on foreign oil .",
"Jack Hidary says switching to a more efficient car can improve safety and save cash .",
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"\"I was one of those kids that was brought up in kind of a crazy environment in the home, and I just thought I'd be better off if I could get out there and start doing it my way,\" said Wilson, 35.",
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"\"I had big dreams like most local musicians do, but the chances of this having happened for me were slim to none,\" said the Grammy Award winner.",
"\"Without [an] education, I'd have been pouring drinks for the rest of my life.\"",
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"\"I didn't have to go back and get her GED, but it was something I really needed to complete me as a person,\" Country singer Gretchen Wilson said.",
"Country singer Gretchen Wilson reached out to the local adult education center in Lebanon, Tennessee, where Country singer Gretchen Wilson met Nelson, the center's director.",
"\"[She] greeted me with a huge smile on Country singer Gretchen Wilson's face and welcome arms,\" Country singer Gretchen Wilson said.",
"\"Country singer Gretchen Wilson promised me above all that I'd be able to stand in that line and be proud of Country singer Gretchen Wilson.",
"Country singer Gretchen Wilson became an instant hero in my eyes.\"",
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"A year later, Country singer Gretchen Wilson received Country singer Gretchen Wilson's GED, crediting the achievement to Country singer Gretchen Wilson's support and encouragement.",
"Together, they're now raising awareness about the importance of an education and encouraging people to say, \"I can do that too.\"",
"Though Country singer Gretchen Wilson had been a teacher for decades, Country singer Gretchen Wilson, 62, didn't realize the scope of under-education in America until Country singer Gretchen Wilson began working in adult education roughly six years ago.",
"\"It was an emotional thing to Country singer Gretchen Wilson because I kept thinking, 'What can I do? How can my little job help?' \" Country singer Gretchen Wilson said.",
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"Country singer Gretchen Wilson believes the benefits of an education are priceless.",
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"Since 2002, Country singer Gretchen Wilson has helped more than 1,050 students receive more than 1,050 students's GEDs.",
"And Country singer Gretchen Wilson said Country singer Gretchen Wilson knows that many others will follow in Country singer Gretchen Wilson's footsteps.",
"\"Gretchen came to the program because Gretchen wanted to fulfill this void that had been missing for all these years for Gretchen,\" Country singer Gretchen Wilson said.",
"\"I don't think Gretchen realized how much this would speak to other people.",
"Gretchen's fans are legion.",
"If Her fans's role model, the Redneck Woman, could get Gretchen's GED, then ... maybe they could too.\"",
"Since Country singer Gretchen Wilson received Country singer Gretchen Wilson's GED in May 2008, Country singer Gretchen Wilson said, several people have already called Country singer Gretchen Wilson, citing the singer's achievement as inspiration for obtaining several people.",
"For Country singer Gretchen Wilson, Country singer Gretchen Wilson's dedication to bringing the importance of education to the forefront of people's lives is making a difference.",
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"Preliminary evidence gathered by Ireland's Food Safety Authority indicated that the contamination likely started in September, Ireland said in a statement.",
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"Bishop Earl Paulk had been at the hospital for several days, a nursing supervisor said.",
"Paulk's death came after an \"extended and horrible battle with cancer,\" Paulk's nephew, Bishop Jim Swilley, wrote in a blog post.",
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"Other allegations -- some true, some unfounded -- cost the church membership, as worshippers dwindled from 10,000 to about 1,000.",
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"The Wireless 700 card combines Broadcom's GPS technology and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi positioning solutions.",
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"The text messages address various issues and come from all over the African continent.",
"Obama greets people Saturday during breakfast at Osu Castle in Accra, Ghana.",
"From the personal: \"Obama, as a young lady I dream of being the president.",
"U r a huge encouragement.\"",
"To cries for help: \"Obama, Darfur firing again...waiting for peace through the change u promised.\"",
"To calls for intervention: \"Encourage African leaders to improve the quality and access to education for citizens.\"",
"The messages, from Ghana, Sudan and South Africa respectively, were among more than 5,000 sent to Obama during Obama's first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa.",
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"Despite being home to some of the world's poorest nations, Africa has a vibrant cell phone market, considered by industry analysts as among the fastest-growing worldwide.",
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"\"Over the past week, we have been collecting questions, comments and words of welcome for Obama via SMS, Twitter, Facebook and from newspapers across Africa,\" the White House said on the White House's Web site.",
"Three journalists from South Africa, Senegal and Kenya will vet the questions and provide a few to Obama, who will address them on African radio stations and via a Web video Monday, the White House said.",
"Peter Kimani, a senior associate editor for a Kenyan daily, The Standard, is one of the three.",
"\"The U.S. Embassy picked and vetted the journalists, and we are getting the questions, then it is up to us to determine what questions we will forward to the president,\" Kimani said.",
"\"It is our judgment call on what to pick.\"",
"Most of the text messages were coming from South Africa, according to a log on the the White House Web site.",
"Obama's one-nation visit has generated envy among Ghana's neighbors, who considered it a message from the White House to governments that have poor records of stability.",
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"\"We r disappointed that you have not chosen Nigeria as your first African point of call,\" one text said."
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"Venezuela has promised to give Nicaragua $50 million to replace money that the United States said this week the United States would withhold from the Central American country, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said Saturday.",
"Ortega expressed disappointment in U.S. President Barack Obama's decision.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised the aid after Ortega learned that the United States was canceling $62 million of aid that was to have come from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S.-government-funded anti-poverty fund set up by former President George W. Bush.",
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"Wednesday's decision to cut the funds altogether came after the United States announced last November that the United States was suspending aid to Managua in the wake of what the United States said were fraudulent municipal elections.",
"Ortega, whose party members won most of the mayoralties, disputed that.",
"And Ortega warned U.S. President Barack Obama's U.S. counterpart that the world has changed since the United States funded the contras.",
"\"U.S. President Barack Obama is the first to know that the United States of today is not the United States of 20, 30, 40 years ago,\" Ortega said.",
"\"Today, the United States cannot do whatever the United States wants in the world.",
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"They have even lost the support of the U.S. people.\"",
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"That was the promise that President George H. W. Bush made.\"",
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"\"President George H. W. Bush fed the war in Guatemala, President George H. W. Bush fed the war in El Salvador, President George H. W. Bush fed the war in Nicaragua,\" Ortega said.",
"Ortega described the three U.S.-backed governments that ruled Nicaragua from 1990 until 2007 -- when Ortega reclaimed power -- as anti-democratic.",
"\"They robbed the people of the right to health, the right to education, the right to decent housing,\" Ortega said.",
"\"They privatized energy industry, the telecommunications industry, the businesses of the workers -- those were nothing more than acts of corruption.\"",
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"But work that has begun on two of the roads will be completed, said Rodney Bent, deputy CEO for the Millennium Challenge Corporation in an interview Friday with CNN en Espanol.",
"Rodney Bent, deputy CEO for the Millennium Challenge Corporation denied any suggestion that the money was being used for political ends rather than simply to alleviate poverty.",
"\"That's totally false,\" Rodney Bent, deputy CEO for the Millennium Challenge Corporation said, adding that Rodney Bent, deputy CEO for the Millennium Challenge Corporation's corporation's funds are doled out regardless of a government's leftist, centrist or conservative policies.",
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"Rep. Charles Rangel said Rep. Charles Rangel is satisfied with the steps New York police are taking in response to the death of Officer Omar Edwards, but renewed his call for a federal investigation into instances of police friendly fire.",
"Officer Omar Edwards was shot to death by another officer on May 28.",
"Edwards, 25, a black officer, was shot to death May 28 by a fellow officer, Andrew Dunton, who is white.",
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"Officials said Dunton said Dunton didn't realize Officer Omar Edwards was an officer.",
"\"Every white cop that shot down a black cop, I would believe it was a mistake and not because of racism, but it takes special training for them to know,\" Rep. Charles Rangel , D-New York, told CNN's Don Lemon on Saturday.",
"In the wake of Officer Omar Edwards's death, the New York Police Department has implemented sensitivity training and provided guidance to officers on identifying officers.",
"In a statement, Rep. Charles Rangel asked the Department of Justice to look into \"police department practices, training of police officers and whether and to what extent race was an issue in the tragedy.\"",
"The shooting prompted New York Gov. David Paterson to commission a task force to investigate shootings between police officers statewide, spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein told CNN on Saturday.",
"NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne pledged Saturday to assist New York Gov. David Paterson's investigation.",
"Also Saturday, NYPD released a list of 10 New York City officers killed in cases of mistaken identity since 1930.",
"Five of 10 New York City officers killed in cases of mistaken identity since 1930 were African-American or Hispanic; five were white.",
"a list of 10 New York City officers killed in cases of mistaken identity since 1930 does not include officers who were injured by friendly fire, and does not specify whether the officers killed were on or off duty.",
"The formation of the New York task force came after New York Gov. David Paterson met with state officials, clergy members and civil rights leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, in a closed-door meeting Friday.",
"The group called for an independent investigation and the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into the NYPD incident.",
"\"the New York task force are handling this sensitively,\" New York Gov. David Paterson told reporters after a closed-door meeting.",
"\"There may be issues that involve race, [but] the New York task force are not discussing any institutional or direct racism.\"",
"New York Gov. David Paterson spoke of what New York Gov. David Paterson described as a \"high percentage of African-American and Hispanic police officers who were shot either on or off duty by friendly fire.\"",
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"the New York task force will ask NYPD and police departments across the state to provide any data related to shootings where officers were either killed or injured by other officers.",
"New York Gov. David Paterson said the New York task force will look at the statistics to \"determine if there's any disproportionate sense that any particular group has been victimized more than any other.\"",
"New York Gov. David Paterson said that New York Gov. David Paterson would \"not close the door\" on an independent investigation or special prosecutor to look into the death of Edwards, but would rely for now on the investigation by the New York City district attorney and the NYPD.",
"The focus of the New York task force, New York Gov. David Paterson said, would be to prevent friendly fire among all police officers, regardless of race, and to instill confidence in the state and community that such incidents are investigated properly .",
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"After arguing with Liza Murphy's husband, Liza Murphy walked out of their home in Emerson, New Jersey, leaving behind Liza Murphy's purse, Liza Murphy's cigarettes, Liza Murphy's cell phone and Liza Murphy's three children, Liza Murphy's husband told police.",
"There has been no sign of Liza Murphy since August 19, 2007.",
"Liza Murphy has been missing from Liza Murphy's home in Emerson, New Jersey, since August 19, 2007.",
"Liza Murphy's friends and family reported Liza Murphy missing the next day.",
"\"In my heart, I fear the worst, that Liza Murphy is gone,\" said Liza Murphy's mother, Sophia Stellatos.",
"Police searched extensively for Liza Murphy, especially around a reservoir not far from Liza Murphy's home, but they found nothing.",
"Cadaver dogs caught Liza Murphy's scent near the George Washington Bridge, but the trail went cold, police told the family.",
"Deepening the mystery, Liza Murphy's husband, Joe Murphy, tried to take husband's own life a few days after husband's wife disappeared by walking into oncoming traffic and throwing husband in front of a fire truck, police say.",
"husband was hospitalized and recovered from husband's injuries, but police say husband hired a lawyer and is no longer cooperating with investigators.",
"husband's lawyer said Murphy, an Irish immigrant, has nothing to hide from the authorities.",
"a lawyer said a lawyer's client has no criminal record and no history of violence.",
"Attorney Joseph Rem added that there was no physical violence in the marriage.",
"According to Liza Murphy's family, Liza Murphy, 42, was not the type of person to take off on Liza Murphy's own without letting Liza Murphy's family know.",
"Watch an update » .",
"\"Liza Murphy would never leave Liza Murphy three children behind voluntarily,\" Liza Murphy's mother insisted.",
"\"What doesn't make sense is Liza Murphy leaving Liza Murphy's house without Liza Murphy's purse, cell phone, wallet, keys or cigarettes,\" she added.",
"\"Liza Murphy was a heavy smoker, and if Liza Murphy took off after a fight for a walk to cool off, Liza Murphy definitely wouldn't leave without Liza Murphy's cigarettes!\"",
"Liza Murphy and Liza Murphy's husband were having marital problems, Liza Murphy's family said.",
"Stellatos described husband as possessive of husband's wife, never allowing Liza Murphy to go out with Liza Murphy's friends.",
"She said husband was even jealous if Liza Murphy spent time with Liza Murphy's parents.",
"a lawyer pointed out that a lawyer's client has not been named as a suspect or a person of interest in the case.",
"a lawyer said police have not asked to speak to a lawyer's client recently.",
"Liza Murphy's children are 15, 13 and 10 years old now.",
"husband has full custody of Liza Murphy's children, and the Stellatoses have not seen Liza Murphy's children's grandchildren since shortly before their daughter disappeared.",
"Liza Murphy and Liza Murphy's children had spent the week before Liza Murphy's disappearance visiting with Liza Murphy's parents, who live about 125 miles away.",
"Murphy and her children returned the Friday before Liza Murphy's disappearance.",
"Police say both the Liza Murphy home and Murphy and her children's vehicles have been processed for forensics, but Police found no evidence of foul play or struggle.",
"Liza Murphy had been suffering from depression and was on medication for fibromyalgia, a painful condition that affects the muscles and soft tissues.",
"Police say Liza Murphy may have been accosted after Liza Murphy left home, still stewing over the argument.",
"The police seek the public's help in this case.",
"Anyone with information leading to the whereabouts of Liza Murphy or the arrest of the person responsible for Liza Murphy's disappearance is asked to call the Emerson Police Department's tip line at 201-262-2800."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) --",
"A stolen Statue of Liberty replica has resurfaced in a disturbing video posted on YouTube that shows someone decapitating A stolen Statue of Liberty replica and smashing A stolen Statue of Liberty replica's head into pieces.",
"The YouTube video shows a gloved hand sawing off the statue before smashing the statue.",
"The 200-pound replica was stolen less than a month ago from Vox Pop, a coffee shop in Brooklyn.",
"\"It's very disturbing,\" shop operator Debi Ryan told CNN, adding The YouTube video struck a chord similar to that of terrorist assassination videos.",
"\"I don't know what it means.",
"... I don't know who would do this.\"",
"The YouTube video begins with a waving American flag, and then shows a gloved hand sawing off the head of A stolen Statue of Liberty replica before crushing the statue.",
"The slogans \"We don't want your freedom\" and \"Death to America\" flash across the screen during the one-minute video, which is dated July Fourth.",
"It was anonymously e-",
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"shop operator Debi Ryan said shop operator Debi Ryan's sure the statue in The YouTube video is the one stolen from shop operator Debi Ryan's cafe.",
"\"A stolen Statue of Liberty replica's unique.",
"I know A stolen Statue of Liberty replica,\" shop operator Debi Ryan said of A stolen Statue of Liberty replica.",
"\"We just had A stolen Statue of Liberty replica completely refurbished, outfitted with a solar torch and painted.\"",
"Authorities told CNN Authorities are handling the case as a larceny rather than separately investigating The YouTube video.",
"\"We want to verify who sent the e-mail with The YouTube video and see if they're responsible,\" police said.",
"A sign on the store, located in Ditmas Park, reads, \"Books, Coffee, Democracy,\" near where the 8-foot replica of Lady Liberty used to stand outside.",
"The self-described community coffee shop is also a bookstore and a spot for artists and performers.",
"\"We've created a space here that's owned by the community,\" shop operator Debi Ryan said.",
"\"We're all about freedom of speech and freedom to be who you are and say whatever you think.\"",
"But shop operator Debi Ryan doesn't consider The YouTube video featuring shop operator Debi Ryan's stolen statue appropriate free speech.",
"\"Vox Pop stands for freedom of speech.",
"You don't get to steal somebody else's property to send that message.",
"We have to respect each other,\" shop operator Debi Ryan said.",
"Although The self-described community coffee shop recently faced economic problems and neighborhood tension, the motive behind A stolen Statue of Liberty replica's theft remains unknown.",
"As for whether there will be a replacement statue, shop operator Debi Ryan said, \"I'm hoping.",
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"(CNN) --",
"David Beckham is planning showdown talks with L.A. Galaxy teammate Landon Donovan, who questioned the English football star's commitment to L.A. Galaxy earlier this month.",
"The midfielder, left, is unhappy with David Beckham's contribution at L.A. Galaxy.",
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"\"In every football player's eyes throughout the world, it would be unprofessional to speak out about a team-mate, especially in the press and not to your face,\" David Beckham said before watching L.A. Galaxy's 1-0 win over Chivas USA on Saturday night.",
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"\"In 17 years, I have played with the biggest teams in the world and the biggest players, and not once have I been criticized for my professionalism.",
"\"It's important to get this cleared up, and I will be speaking to The midfielder either this evening or over the next couple of days.",
"Me and The midfielder will talk, but that will be a private conversation.\"",
"Donovan, who led the United States to the Confederations Cup final last month, said in the soon-to-be-published book \"The Beckham Experiment\" by Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl that David Beckham had been a negative influence since The midfielder's high-profile move to the Major League Soccer outfit two years ago.",
"The midfielder said Beckham, who brokered a loan move to AC Milan last season, had shown little interest in L.A. Galaxy since coach Ruud Gullit resigned in August last year.",
"Donovan, who leads L.A. Galaxy in David Beckham's absence, also cast doubt on the 34-year-old midfielder's leadership abilities.",
"But last week The midfielder admitted that The midfielder should have brought up The midfielder's grievances with David Beckham earlier.",
"\"I don't apologize for what I said,\" Donovan told MLSnet.com on Thursday.",
"\"I just apologize for the way I did.",
"I should have told The midfielder to The midfielder's face.",
"I've long told The midfielder since The midfielder's been gone and I've been gone that I want to sit down and talk with The midfielder about everything.",
"\"It's fresh in everyone's minds now, and it appears like everything has gone on in a short period of time, but this has been a long time coming.",
"The timing of it makes it a little awkward and seemingly uncomfortable, but we'll be fine.",
"We'll get through it.",
"\"I like The midfielder as a person and I think The midfielder's a very good player.",
"The frustrating part was at some point something happened and The midfielder seemingly turned off at the end of the year.",
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"Instead I vented to a reporter, and I regret it.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Woody Harrelson defended Woody Harrelson's clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity --",
"Woody Harrelson says Woody Harrelson mistook the cameraman for a zombie.",
"Woody Harrelson says Woody Harrelson got into a clash with a photographer because Woody Harrelson mistook a photographer for a zombie.",
"The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged a photographer's camera and pushed a photographer in the face at a New York airport, according to an airport spokesman.",
"\"We're looking into this allegation and if this allegation's warranted, we'll turn this allegation over to the proper authorities,\" said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Ron Marsico.",
"The photographer, who was not identified, captured the encounter on a small camera after his larger one was broken.",
"Harrelson, who is being sued by another TMZ photographer for an alleged assault in 2006, did not deny his involvement.",
"\"I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,\" Woody Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by Woody Harrelson's publicist.",
"\"With my daughter at a New York airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,\" Woody Harrelson said.",
"TMZ.com posted two videos of the incident, including one recorded by the larger camera before it was damaged.",
"The first video shows the photographer following Woody Harrelson and Woody Harrelson's daughter down an escalator and out of the terminal.",
"The first video ends with Woody Harrelson apparently reaching for the lens.",
"The second video begins with the a photographer accusing Woody Harrelson of breaking his camera.",
"After Woody Harrelson returns his camera to him, a scuffle appears to ensue.",
"\"Woody Harrelson, this is assault.",
"Woody Harrelson, this is assault,\" a photographer is heard saying.",
"\"Woody Harrelson, chill out.",
"Would you please chill out?\"",
"a photographer continues to follow Woody Harrelson for another four minutes as the actor and Woody Harrelson's daughter walk to the airport parking lot.",
"At one point, Woody Harrelson again turns toward the cameraman.",
"\"I'm being chased by Woody Harrelson while I'm talking to you,\" a photographer says as a photographer talks to an unidentified person on a cell phone.",
"\"Woody Harrelson hit me in my face, Woody Harrelson broke my friggin' camera, Woody Harrelson broke my friggin' camera in pieces,\" a photographer said.",
"Woody Harrelson, Woody Harrelson's daughter and a driver get inside an SUV and the encounter ends.",
"In the movie \"Zombieland,\" Woody Harrelson plays \"the most frightened person on Earth\" looking for refuge from zombies, according to the Internet Movie Database .",
"Filming on the movie wrapped in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, according to director Ruben Fleischer's Web site.",
"TMZ photographer Josh Levine filed a lawsuit against Woody Harrelson last year for an alleged attack outside a Hollywood nightclub in 2006.",
"Video of that incident, which is also posted on TMZ.com, also appeared to show Woody Harrelson grabbing a camera and clashing with TMZ photographer Josh Levine.",
"Los Angeles prosecutors declined to press charges against the actor, but TMZ photographer Josh Levine filed a suit last summer asking for $2.5 million in damages.",
"\"Woody Harrelson has a history of anger management issues with people and we intend to put a stop to this,\" Cyrus Nownejad, TMZ photographer Josh Levine's lawyer, said Friday.",
"TMZ is partly owned by AOL, part of CNN's parent company, Time Warner.",
"CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) --",
"The pilot of a doomed plane that crashed, killing 50 people, said \"Jesus Christ\" and \"We're down,\" seconds before plane hurtled from the night sky into a house outside Buffalo, New York, in February.",
"An investigator walks past the wreckage from a plane crash in Clarence Center, New York, in February.",
"The last sounds heard in the cockpit were First Officer Rebecca Shaw saying \"We're\" and then screaming at 10:16 p.m. on February 12, according to a transcript of the cockpit recording.",
"Seconds earlier, the pilot, Capt. Marvin Renslow, said, \"Jesus Christ,\" as a sound \"similar to stick shaker\" was heard, a transcript of the cockpit recording said.",
"Renslow said, \"We're down,\" and a thump was heard before First Officer Rebecca Shaw said, \"We're\" and screamed.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board released the transcript of the cockpit recording on Tuesday as The National Transportation Safety Board began a three-day hearing in Washington on the crash.",
"See how crash of Flight 3407 unfolded » .",
"Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by regional carrier Colgan Air, plunged into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one man in the house.",
"About five minutes before the crash, First Officer Rebecca Shaw had shared with Renslow First Officer Rebecca Shaw's fear of flying in icy conditions, according to a transcript of the cockpit recording.",
"\"I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls.",
"You know I'dve freaked out.",
"I'dve [sic] had like seen this much ice and thought, 'oh my gosh, we were going to crash",
",\" First Officer Rebecca Shaw told Renslow.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary investigation determined there was some ice accumulation on the Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 aircraft, but that \"icing had a minimal impact on the stall speed of the airplane.\"",
"Watch more on the The National Transportation Safety Board investigation » .",
"In a story Monday, the Wall Street Journal cited investigators as saying the crash resulted from pilot Renslow's incorrect response to plane's precarious drop in speed: Renslow overrode an emergency system known as a \"stick pusher,\" which sends plane into a dive so plane can regain speed and avoid a stall.",
"Colgan Air, the operator of Continental Connection flights, said Monday that Renslow had never trained in a flight simulator with the safety system that activated just before the plane went down.",
"Colgan Air said there is no regulatory requirement that Colgan Air provide hands-on training with the \"stick pusher.\"",
"\"A stick pusher demonstrated in an aircraft simulator is not required by the FAA,\" Colgan Air said in a statement.",
"\"And thus was not included in Colgan Air's Q400 training program.\"",
"The Federal Aviation Administration said The Federal Aviation Administration's standards do not require hands-on practice with the safety system.",
"\"That's a significant problem,\" veteran pilot Douglas Moss told CNN.",
"Moss, an expert in stall recovery, believes flight simulator practice with a stick pusher should be mandatory for aspiring pilots.",
"\"It's similar to picking up and throwing a groundball in baseball.",
"You can study it academically all you want to but you really need to develop the proficiency, the skill, the muscle memory required to do that,\" said veteran pilot Douglas Moss.",
"Renslow had failed five pilot tests, known as \"check rides,\" three of which occurred before Renslow joined Colgan Air, Colgan Air said.",
"Renslow had revealed only one of those failures to Colgan Air, according to Colgan Air.",
"NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said Tuesday that the board's hearing will not address who is to blame for the crash.",
"\"Over the course of the board's hearing, we will continue to collect information that will assist the safety board in its examination of safety issues arising from the crash,\" NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said.",
"NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker said those issues are: airplane performance, cold weather operations, a sterile cockpit, flight crew training and performance, and fatigue management.",
"CNN's Allan Chernoff contributed to this report."
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"(Mental Floss) --",
"Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act.",
"The most common solution was simply to grab what was at hand: coconuts, shells, snow, moss, hay, leaves, grass, corncobs, sheep's wool -- and, later, thanks to the printing press -- newspapers, magazines, and pages of books.",
"The average American uses 57 squares a day and 50 pounds of toilet paper per year.",
"The ancient Greeks used clay and stone; the Romans, sponges and salt water.",
"But the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one's bum?",
"That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A.",
"In less than a century, Uncle Sam's marketing genius turned something disposable into something indispensable.",
"Toilet paper gets on a roll .",
"The first products designed specifically to wipe one's nethers were aloe-infused sheets of manila hemp dispensed from Kleenex-like boxes.",
"They were invented in 1857 by a New York entrepreneur named Joseph Gayetty, who claimed his sheets prevented hemorrhoids.",
"Gayetty was so proud of Gayetty's therapeutic bathroom paper that Gayetty had Gayetty's name printed on each sheet.",
"But Gayetty's success was limited.",
"Americans soon grew accustomed to wiping with the Sears Roebuck catalog, and Americans saw no need to spend money on something that came in the mail for free.",
"Toilet paper took Toilet paper's next leap forward in 1890, when two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott popularized the concept of toilet paper on a roll.",
"two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott's brand became more successful than Gayetty's medicated wipes, in part because two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott built a steady trade selling toilet paper to hotels and drugstores.",
"But it was still an uphill battle to get the public to openly buy the product, largely because Americans remained embarrassed by bodily functions.",
"In fact, two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott were so ashamed of the nature of two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott's work that two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott didn't take proper credit for two brothers named Clarence and E. Irvin Scott's innovation until 1902.",
"\"No one wanted to ask for it by name,\" says Dave Praeger, author of \"Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by America's Grossest National Product.\"",
"\"It was so taboo that you couldn't even talk about Toilet paper.\"",
"By 1930, the German paper company Hakle began using the tag line, \"Ask for a roll of Hakle and you won't have to say toilet paper!\"",
"As time passed, toilet tissues slowly became an American staple.",
"But widespread acceptance of Toilet paper didn't officially occur until a new technology demanded the product.",
"At the end of the 19th century, more and more homes were being built with sit-down flush toilets tied to indoor plumbing systems.",
"And because people required a product that could be flushed away with minimal damage to the pipes, corncobs and moss no longer cut it.",
"In no time, toilet paper ads boasted that Toilet paper was recommended by both doctors and plumbers.",
"Mental Floss: 5 times drug companies promised too much .",
"Strength of going soft .",
"In the early 1900s, toilet paper was still being marketed as a medicinal item.",
"But in 1928, the Hoberg Paper Company tried a different tack.",
"On the advice of the Hoberg Paper Company's ad men, the Hoberg Paper Company introduced a brand called Charmin and fitted the product with a feminine logo that depicted a beautiful woman.",
"The genius of the campaign was that by evincing softness and femininity, the Hoberg Paper Company could avoid talking about toilet paper's actual purpose.",
"a brand called Charmin was enormously successful, and the tactic helped a brand called Charmin survive the Great Depression.",
"(It also helped that, in 1932, a brand called Charmin began marketing economy-size packs of four rolls.)",
"Decades later, the dainty ladies were replaced with babies and bear cubs -- advertising vehicles that still stock the aisles today.",
"By the 1970s, America could no longer conceive of life without toilet paper.",
"Case in point: In December 1973, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson joked about a toilet paper shortage during Johnny Carson's opening monologue.",
"But America didn't laugh.",
"Instead, TV watchers across America ran out to TV watchers across the country's local grocery stores and bought up as much of the stuff as TV watchers across the country could.",
"Also telling was that, in 1978, a TV Guide poll named Mr. Whipple --the affable grocer who implored customers, \"Please don't squeeze the Charmin\" -- the third best-known man in America, behind former President Richard Nixon and the Rev. Billy Graham.",
"Mental Floss: Cheetos Lip Balm and other bizarre brand extensions .",
"Rolling the world .",
"Currently, America spends more than $6 billion a year on toilet tissue -- more than any other nation in the world.",
"Americans, on average, use 57 squares a day and 50 pounds a year.",
"Even still, the toilet paper market in America has largely plateaued.",
"The real growth in the industry is happening in developing countries.",
"There, it's booming.",
"Toilet paper revenues in Brazil alone have more than doubled since 2004.",
"The radical upswing in sales is believed to be driven by a combination of changing demographics, social expectations, and disposable income.",
"\"The spread of globalization can kind of be measured by the spread of Western bathroom practices,\" says Praeger.",
"When average citizens in a country start buying toilet paper, wealth and consumerism have arrived.",
"It signifies that people not only have extra cash to spend, but people've also come under the influence of Western marketing.",
"America without toilet paper?",
"Even as the markets boom in developing nations, toilet paper manufacturers find toilet paper manufacturers needing to charge more per roll to make a profit.",
"That's because production costs are rising.",
"During the past few years, pulp has become more expensive, energy costs are rising, and even water is becoming scarce.",
"As the climate continues to change, toilet paper companies may need to keep hiking up toilet paper companies's prices.",
"The question is, if toilet paper becomes a luxury item, can Americans live without toilet paper?",
"Mental Floss: Why does bottled water have an expiration date?",
"The truth is that we did live without it, for a very long time.",
"And even now, a lot of people do.",
"In Japan, the Washlet -- a toilet that comes equipped with a bidet and an air-blower -- is growing increasingly popular.",
"And all over the world, water remains one of the most common methods of self-cleaning.",
"Many places in India, the Middle East, and Asia, for instance, still depend on a bucket and a spigot.",
"But as our economy continues to circle the drain, will Americans part with Americans's beloved toilet paper in order to adopt more money-saving measures?",
"Or will Americans keep flushing Americans's cash away?",
"Praeger, for one, believes a toilet-paper apocalypse is hardly likely.",
"After all, the American marketing machine is a powerful thing.",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Shiite Muslim women light candles early Friday at a shrine in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq.",
"The first four attacks, which together killed 36 and wounded 124, targeted Shiites; the fifth attack was against a Sunni target.",
"In the latest attack, a parked motorcycle bomb exploded in the marketplace of al-Khadra in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of eastern Baghdad.",
"Six people died, and 30 were wounded, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"the latest attack appeared to have targeted a police patrol; three of the fatalities were police, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"But most of the carnage was directed at Shiite targets, with the highest single toll exacted in the northern city of Mosul, where a suicide car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque as a funeral was taking place, killing 30 people and wounding 100, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"In another attack, a roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims in the Sadr City neighborhood, killing three and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry official said.",
"Also in Sadr City, a roadside bomb exploded near a car, killing one person and wounding seven.",
"And in eastern Baghdad, a car carrying pilgrims was targeted, killing two people and wounding nine.",
"Friday was the end of a Shiite Muslim celebration in Karbala celebrating the birthday of Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi, the last of 12 historic imams revered by Shiites.",
"Pilgrims participating in such celebrations have been the target of similar attacks by Sunni Muslims.",
"According to the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi \"is expected to return at the end of time as the messianic imam who will restore justice and equity on Earth.\"",
"Last Friday, bombs detonated after prayers near five Shiite mosques nearly simultaneously, killing 29 people as 29 people were leaving the mosques.",
"The attacks fueled fears that sectarian violence could be reigniting in the country and called into question the ability of security forces to safeguard the population as U.S. troops have taken a back seat to U.S. troops's Iraqi counterparts.",
"Though the number of casualties has dropped over the past year, Friday's attacks show that an insurgency capable of wreaking havoc remains.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon and Yousif Bassil contributed to this story from Baghdad."
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"All the news that's fit to print -- the motto of The New York Times -- does not necessarily apply to photos.",
"New York Times published an editor's note Thursday stating that pictures used in a photo essay in New York Times's most recent Sunday Magazine were digitally manipulated without the paper's knowledge.",
"New York Times commissioned Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins to shoot a Sunday magazine color photo essay titled \"Ruins of the Second Gilded Age\" to capture physical evidence of the real estate bust that took place across the United States.",
"In the text that preceded the six photos that were published, Sunday Magazine stated that while the photographer \"creates images with long exposures,\" the photographer does so without digital manipulation.",
"\"A reader ... discovered upon close examination that one of the pictures was digitally altered, apparently for aesthetic reasons,\" the Times editors wrote.",
"\"Editors later confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show.",
"Had the editors known that the photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have published the picture essay, which has been removed from the NYTimes.com,\" the note concluded.",
"Numerous attempts by CNN to reach the photographer by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful.",
"New York Times's decision to withdraw the photos left a publisher of the photographer's book \"Topologies\" released in 2008, intrigued and surprised.",
"\"I think the photographer's a great artist and we're very proud to have published the photographer's prior works,\" said Lesley Martin, publisher of Aperture books.",
"Lesley Martin said that the photographer's prior works frequently verge on abstract landscapes, including forests ravaged by fire and nighttime beaches.",
"\"the photographer's work has a certain visual effect.",
"A distinct look and feel to His work.\"",
"However, Lesley Martin said Lesley Martin understands New York Times's decision.",
"Aperture books, which publishes a variety of photographic styles, including photojournalism, \"would not have published this work in a strict journalistic context had we known there would be manipulation used,\" Lesley Martin said."
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"Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut unseated the six-time defending champion in Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Wednesday, eating 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.",
"Chestnut -- veins throbbing in Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut's forehead -- wolfs down a dog on Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut's way to the title and a world record Wednesday.",
"Six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi of Japan, nursing a sore jaw after wisdom tooth surgery, scarfed down 63 hot dogs.",
"Last year, he edged out Chestnut by nearly two dogs, eating a then-record 53 and three-quarters to Chestnut's 52.",
"Chestnut, who hails from San Jose, California, set a record with Wednesday's feat of eating 66 hot dogs, the event's organizers said.",
"Not since Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in the 1971 bout coined the \"Fight of the Century\" have two contestants battled so hard.",
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"Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut toiled beside Kobayashi, a vein throbbing in Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut's forehead and Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut's face bright red.",
"Watch how the wiener-off went down » .",
"\"My body worked for Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut,\" Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut said in an interview after the contest.",
"Kobayashi, 29 years old and weighing in at 154 pounds, was listed as questionable prior to the event.",
"Kobayashi was receiving acupuncture treatment Wednesday morning to relieve pain in Kobayashi's jaw after wisdom tooth surgery.",
"Video from Tuesday's weigh-in showed that Kobayashi could open Kobayashi's mouth only half way.",
"Chestnut, 23, weighing 215 pounds, had broken Kobayashi's 2006 record by downing 59½ hot dogs at a qualifying contest in Phoenix last month.",
"Joey \"Jaws\" Chestnut claims the \"Coveted Mustard Yellow International Belt\" and wins a one-year supply of hot dogs from Nathan's, the sponsor of the annual event, which has been held on the corner of Surf and Stillwell avenues in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn since 1916.",
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"A U.S. Marine patrols Garmser district in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Friday.",
"A Marine source described Thursday evening's fighting in the Helmand River Valley as \"our most significant encounter.\"",
"Sporadic fighting that began earlier Thursday stretched over several hours in the southeastern sector of Garmser district, said Pelletier, spokesman for the Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan.",
"Helmand province, a poppy-growing region, is the focus of the U.S.-led Operation Khanjar.",
"Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world's opium, which is used in the production of heroin.",
"The forces are attempting to gain and hold ground in the perilous region ahead of Afghan national elections in August.",
"Almost 4,000 Marines and sailors from the expeditionary brigade, along with more than 600 Afghan national security forces, are operating in key population centers along the Helmand River Valley, Pelletier said.",
"Their targets are Garmser and Nawa districts in central Helmand, and stretch to Rig district in the south, Pelletier said.",
"Marines and Afghan forces have taken over the key town of Khan Neshin, the capital of Rig district, which had been under Taliban control, the Marine source said.",
"The goal is to protect residents from the threat of Taliban and other insurgent intimidation and violence, Pelletier said.",
"\"Our focus is now and will remain the Afghan people.",
"We have worked closely with local Helmand government officials and many tribal and local leaders in the detailed planning of this major offensive,\" said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, commander of Task Force Leatherneck.",
"Once security is established, civil affairs personnel and other nongovernmental groups and agencies can come in and establish programs.",
"However, Taliban control of the countryside is so extensive in provinces such as Afghanistan's Helmand province and Kandahar to the east that security forces face a tough job, according to a report this week in The New York Times.",
"The government has no involvement in five of Afghanistan's Helmand province's 13 districts, a report this week in The New York Times said.",
"In the fighting that began Thursday, Marines fired 20 mm cannons from Marines's Cobra helicopter gunships -- but dropped no bombs -- to avoid the higher risk of civilian casualties, the Marine source said.",
"the Marine source called resistance \"heavy\" and \"persistent\" but intermittent.",
"Militants responded using small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.",
"\"Last night, Marines bedded down in compounds within cities ... with permission from the people\" rather than sleep in a restricted area away from the local population, Pelletier said.",
"Pelletier said military leaders also were holding talks with village leaders.",
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"A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.",
"Kristen Diane Parker has admitted to secretly injecting Kristen Diane Parker and using unclean syringes for patients.",
"Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver, has admitted to secretly injecting Kristen Diane Parker in a bathroom and using unclean syringes as replacements for patients, investigators said.",
"Kristen Diane Parker had hepatitis C, which Kristen Diane Parker believes Kristen Diane Parker contracted through using heroin and sharing dirty needles while Kristen Diane Parker lived in New Jersey in 2008, authorities said.",
"Kristen Diane Parker was a surgical technician at Rose from October 2008 to April 2009.",
"Nine patients who had surgery there during that time have tested positive for hepatitis C.",
"Investigators are looking into whether they contracted the virus from Kristen Diane Parker.",
"According to an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Food and Drug Administration, Rose Medical Center knew Kristen Diane Parker tested positive for hepatitis C.",
"Kristen Diane Parker was counseled on how to limit Kristen Diane Parker's exposure to patients.",
"Kristen Diane Parker quit after Kristen Diane Parker was found to be in an operating room where Kristen Diane Parker was not allowed to be.",
"Kristen Diane Parker subsequently tested positive for fentanyl.",
"Hospital officials then contacted the DEA.",
"Kristen Diane Parker is in federal custody facing three drug-related charges.",
"If Kristen Diane Parker is found to have done serious harm to a patient, Kristen Diane Parker could face up to 20 years in prison.",
"If a patient dies because of Kristen Diane Parker's actions, Kristen Diane Parker could face life in prison.",
"In a statement to police, Kristen Diane Parker said, \"I can't take back what I did, but I will have to live with it for the rest of my life, and so does everyone else.\"",
"Kristen Diane Parker's attorney could not be reached Friday.",
"Rose Medical Center is contacting 4,700 patients who had surgery at Rose during the time Kristen Diane Parker was employed there.",
"However, hospital officials do not believe that many patients were exposed.",
"\"We are taking a very conservative and cautious approach by contacting everyone who had surgery during this broad time period,\" a statement on the hospital's Web site said, adding, \"It is likely that most of the patients who receive letters will not have been exposed to hepatitis C.\"",
"An additional 1,200 patients may have been infected between May 4, 2009, and July 1, 2009, when Kristen Diane Parker worked at Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs.",
"Audubon is also contacting patients.",
"According to the Centers for Disease Control, hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The British government is buying 10,000 Taser stun guns for police officers across England and Wales, Britain's Home Office said Monday.",
"British police officers use a Taser gun to tackle a mock suspect in a training exercise.",
"The move will expand the ranks of officers carrying the weapons from \"select firearms squads\" to \"thousands of trained frontline officers,\" according to the Home Office, which is responsible for domestic policing.",
"Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Jacqui Smith said police \"deserve our support, so I want to give the police the tools the police tell me the police need to confront dangerous people.",
"That is why I am giving the police 10,000 Tasers.\"",
"The guns fire barbed darts charged with enough electricity to stun a person, Britain's Home Office said.",
"But Amnesty International UK described them as \"potentially lethal electrical weapons\" that deliver \"50,000 volts of electricity into a person's body.",
"The result is excruciatingly painful, causing a person to fall to the ground and, at times, lose control of their bodily functions.\"",
"The human rights group, however, expressed qualified support for the British government move, urging that the weapons be given only to officers specially trained to use the weapons.",
"\"We don't actually oppose the use of Tasers as long as it's by a limited number of highly trained specialist officers, responding to genuinely life-threatening or very dangerous situations,\" said Oliver Sprague, the organization's arms program director.",
"But, Oliver Sprague, the organization's arms program director added: \"Tasers are potentially lethal weapons which are already linked to numerous deaths in North America and that's why wide deployment without adequate training is a dangerous step too far for British policing.\"",
"\"The home secretary should urgently review this decision and ensure that Tasers only end up in the hands of a small number of fully trained officers capable of making the potentially fatal decision over whether to fire 50,000 volts into a person's body.\"",
"Amnesty says more than 300 people have died after being shot with Tasers since 2001.",
"The decision to introduce Tasers across England and Wales follows what the government called a successful pilot program with officers from 10 police forces, including London's Metropolitan Police and forces responsible for Liverpool and Bristol.",
"The test ran for 12 months from September 2007 with constables who had not previously carried firearms, a Home Office spokesman said.",
"Before a successful pilot program with officers from 10 police forces, including London's Metropolitan Police and forces responsible for Liverpool and Bristol, approximately 6,000 specially trained firearms officers across the country had access to Tasers starting in 2004.",
"Most British police officers do not carry any kind of firearm, Home Secretary Smith emphasized in Home Secretary Smith's statement, a fact Home Secretary Smith said Home Secretary Smith was proud of."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --",
"One day while driving with her father, Hannah Salwen noticed a Mercedes stopped next to a homeless man sitting on the curb.",
"The Salwen family of Atlanta, Georgia, has decided to sell this house and give half the proceeds to charity.",
"\"I said to my dad, 'If that guy didn't have such a nice car, then that guy could have a nice meal,' \" the 15-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, recalled.",
"And so began the tale of what the Salwen family calls \"Hannah's Lunchbox.\"",
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"It started as family discussions about what they needed versus what was enough.",
"Hannah's father Kevin, an entrepreneur, is on the board of the Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and is no stranger to community work, but he said this family conversation was life-changing.",
"\"We stopped and paused and thought about what are the things in the world that could really make a difference, a little bit of difference in the world,\" he said.",
"the Salwen family talked about selling the Salwen family's cars or other things, but it was Hannah's mother, Joan, who came up with selling the Salwen family's 6,500-square-foot house, donating half the proceeds and then moving into a house half the size.",
"For nine years, the Salwen family lived in that house.",
"It boasts five bedrooms, eight fireplaces, a kitchen that would make any cook jealous and even an elevator.",
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"When Hannah would bring friends over, Hannah said, often friends's jaws would drop and friends'd gasp, \"Wow, you live here?\"",
"Like most teens, Hannah loves to shop, and Hannah jammed every space of Hannah's massive walk-in closet full of clothes.",
"But Hannah also knows many people are less fortunate; Hannah volunteers at a local community food bank and other relief agencies.",
"Joan Salwen, a teacher, said that house was her dream home.",
"\"It was a challenge,\" Hannah said of giving up that house.",
"\"It was a test, almost, to see: How committed are the Salwen family?",
"I mean, how serious are these kids about what the Salwen family should do?",
"And they all nodded and there the Salwen family were.\"",
"So the Salwen family put that house up for sale in May 2007 and started figuring out what the Salwen family would do with half the proceeds, which would amount to more than $800,000.",
"the Salwen family spent six months researching charity organizations before deciding on the Hunger Project, an organization dedicated to helping end world hunger through people helping themselves.",
"Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod said the Salwen family met with organizers in New York and notified them months later that the charity was the winner.",
"When that house sells, the money will be channeled through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta over a six-year period and end up in Ghana, Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod said.",
"\"This will underwrite a process in more than 30 villages to enable people to meet all of people's basic needs on a sustainable basis,\" Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod said.",
"\"They will be able to grow enough food, to build clinics and schools, and the villagers will be doing the lion's share of the work.\"",
"Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod said Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod'd never heard of a family donating in this way.",
"\"Hannah's awakening to social injustice, and Hannah's family's ability to make a difference in that issue will make a profound difference in the lives of tens of thousands of people,\" he said, estimating the money could affect more than 20,000 people in Ghana.",
"Hannah's 13-year-old brother, Joseph, was so impressed with Hannah's big sister's ideas that he made a three-minute video of the family's project.",
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"Joseph's video won the grand prize in the 2008 \"My Home: The American Dream\" contest, sponsored by Coldwell Banker and Scholastic Publishing.",
"In Joseph's video, Joseph tells viewers, \"We're showing you can redefine the American dream.\"",
"But that house has sat on the market for more than a year.",
"It's a tough time to sell any house, let alone one with an asking price of nearly $1.8 million.",
"Real estate agent Sally George said Real estate agent Sally George's shown that house 40 or 50 times, and there have been nibbles but no buyers.",
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"Many people are interested in that house's rich history but often don't know anything about the philanthropic aspects of the Salwen family's project.",
"\"I've never handled a house selling for this reason,\" Real estate agent Sally George said.",
"\"I didn't learn about what the Salwen family was doing until early this year.\"",
"Hannah and Joseph said most of Hannah and Joseph's friends at school don't know about the family's project.",
"\"Hannah and Joseph didn't do the family's project for the fame or the glory,\" said Hannah.",
"\"This was something Hannah sort of yanked Hannah and Joseph into.\"",
"Even though it was Hannah's idea to sell that house, it has been tough for Hannah to give that house up.",
"\"I have to admit,\" Hannah said, \"I loved living in that house.",
"Does that make me an evil person?",
"I hope not because it's a beautiful place.\"",
"the Salwen family recently moved to a house less than half the size of the Salwen family's mansion four blocks away.",
"While Hannah's friends called Hannah's old home the \"wow house,\" this one is more ordinary and that's fine with Hannah.",
"Lately the Salwen family has spent a lot of time around the kitchen table talking about an upcoming two-week trip to Ghana.",
"The Salwens will spend six or seven hours a day visiting the villages where their money will be put to work.",
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"\"the Salwen family love the concept of half.",
"the Salwen family are going from a house that's 6,000 square feet to a house that's half the size, and the Salwen family're giving away half the money.",
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"The rehearsals ended on a high note that night.",
"Jackson, here at a June 23 rehearsal, \"was full of jokes, full of life,\" band vocal coach Dorian Holley said.",
"Jackson was energetic and excited.",
"Jackson popped Jackson's signature moonwalk and dance spins that gave chills to some of those watching.",
"As Jackson walked to Jackson's car, Jackson put Jackson's arm around concert promoter Randy Phillips and -- as Phillips later recounted -- in Jackson's soft voice, whispered: \"Thank you, I know we're going to get it there together.",
"I know I can do this.\"",
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"\"All I know is that the Michael Jackson that hugged me and said 'goodnight' was a healthy, vibrant human being about to undertake the greatest undertaking of Jackson's life,\" Phillips said Thursday.",
"\"And something happened between 12:30 when Jackson left us and the morning when I had to rush to the hospital when I got the first call.\"",
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"The death of the pop icon shocked the music world, not only because many fans were looking forward to Jackson's 50 sold-out shows in London, England, beginning in mid-July, but also because the 50-year-old singer -- while a step slower than in Jackson's prime -- was apparently healthy and up to the task of what has been described as a grueling show.",
"\"Jackson was just like a kid in the candy store because Jackson was seeing Jackson's vision come alive,\" said Dorian Holley, the vocal coach for Jackson's band, about the last rehearsal.",
"\"Jackson was just full of jokes, full of life,\" Holley said.",
"He added that Jackson was due to be back at rehearsals again at 4:30 p.m. on the day of Jackson's death.",
"On Thursday, Phillips's promotion company, AEG Live, released a 1½-minute rehearsal clip that was shot two nights before Jackson's death.",
"In a 1½-minute rehearsal clip that was shot two nights before Jackson's death, Jackson barreled through the song \"They Don't Care About Us.\"",
"As a guitarist played a riff, Jackson danced next to Jackson and then led eight backup dancers in a choreographed march, reminiscent of Jackson's breakthrough music video \"Thriller.\"",
"The clip -- shot at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, California, on June 23 -- ends with a voice off stage saying, \"Hold for applause, hold for applause ... fade out.\"",
"Two days later, Jackson was dead.",
"Phillips said a doctor, hired by the tour's insurance carrier, examined Jackson before AEG proceeded with the rehearsals -- and gave Jackson the green light to continue.",
"\"He examined Jackson for about five hours at Jackson's house and I think they went somewhere for some other tests,\" Phillips said.",
"\"We are obviously not privy to the patient-doctor relationship with that information, but the insurance broker told us that he passed with flying colors.\"",
"The production pace in those final weeks was ferocious, some of the attendees said.",
"Jackson's manager, Frank DiLeo, told a radio interviewer that Jackson discussed tweaking the strenuous two-hour format of the shows.",
"\"We were going to do one of two things,\" DiLeo told KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last week.",
"\"We were either going to do so much in the beginning, take a half-hour break, then come back and do the second half of the shows.",
"Or we were going to cut it down to 90 minutes.\"",
"The exacting rehearsals may have been taking a toll on Jackson, Jackson's doctor's lawyer has said.",
"\"Jackson didn't eat very much,\" said Edward Chernoff, the lawyer for Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray.",
"\"Jackson really didn't drink very much.",
"Jackson didn't hydrate very well.",
"When Jackson rehearsed, it was very strenuous exercise.\"",
"As authorities await toxicology reports to determine how Jackson died, fans around the world lamented the loss of a great performer whose ability to dazzle seemed intact, if inhibited, in the short video clip.",
"\"Jackson still moves better at 50 than I could at 15,\" said Stephanie Siek, a graduate student in Frankfurt, Germany.",
"\"But Jackson also seems to be holding back in a way Jackson never did in Jackson's older videos or other footage I've seen.",
"I think it would have been a great show, but I think that a lot of people would have been disappointed, because Jackson was so iconic in Jackson's prime.",
"That's a very, very hard standard to live up to.\"",
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"-- American student Amanda Knox will testify Friday in an Italian courtroom to defend American student Amanda Knox against charges that American student Amanda Knox took part in the killing of Kercher's roommate two years ago, American student Amanda Knox's lawyer said.",
"American college student Amanda Knox, 21, is expected to take the witness stand Friday at Knox's Italian murder trial.",
"Knox, 21, an American college student from Seattle, Washington, will be questioned by American student Amanda Knox's attorneys first and American student Amanda Knox's testimony could continue Saturday, said Luciano Ghriga, one of American student Amanda Knox's lawyers.",
"The trial against American student Amanda Knox and American student Amanda Knox's Italian former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 24, began January 16 in Perugia, a university town about 185 kilometers (115 miles) north of Rome.",
"They are charged with murder and sexual assault in the November 2007 slaying of American student Amanda Knox's roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher, who died in what prosecutors called a \"drug-fueled sex game\" with the couple.",
"A third person, Rudy Hermann Guede, from the Ivory Coast, was convicted of murder in October and sentenced to 30 years in prison.",
"Kercher was found dead in Kercher's bed, half-naked, with a knife wound to Kercher's neck.",
"In court papers, prosecutors stated that Sollecito held Kercher by Kercher's wrists while American student Amanda Knox poked at Kercher with a knife and Guede sexually assaulted Kercher.",
"Prosecutors say Prosecutors have physical evidence placing the defendants at the scene, and that Prosecutors gave investigators confusing and contradictory statements about their whereabouts the night Kercher died.",
"American student Amanda Knox first said American student Amanda Knox was at the house American student Amanda Knox shared with Kercher, then changed American student Amanda Knox's story, according to court records.",
"Sollecito, meanwhile, said Sollecito was never at the house she shared with Kercher, but was at Sollecito's apartment, watching a movie on Sollecito's computer with American student Amanda Knox.",
"Later, Sollecito told investigators Sollecito did not remember whether American student Amanda Knox was with Sollecito the entire night.",
"Defense lawyers are expected to argue that the physical evidence was tainted by sloppy police work.",
"The case is being heard by a panel of eight judges.",
"The trial has drawn more than 140 journalists from 86 news outlets to the courthouse in Perugia, Italy.",
"The presiding judge in The case, Giancarlo Massei, has barred cameras from the courtroom and said he could completely close portions of the trial dealing with the most graphic sexual assault allegations."
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"With Congress on Congress's August recess, lawmakers are back in lawmakers's home districts to meet with lawmakers's constituents.",
"Voters are confronting lawmakers with tough questions on health care at town hall meetings across the country.",
"Across the country, members of Congress are holding town hall meetings where voters are encouraged to voice any questions or concerns about what's happening on Capitol Hill.",
"Health care reform has dominated the conversation at town hall meetings where voters are encouraged to voice any questions or concerns about what's happening on Capitol Hill.",
"President Obama has called on Congress to pass legislation this year, but lawmakers are hearing from lawmakers's constituents that lawmakers want more specifics on what reform will mean for lawmakers.",
"In addition to taking questions, lawmakers are trying to set the record straight and put an end to the spread of misinformation.",
"Many town hall meetings are open to anyone.",
"If you're interested in attending one, you're not alone.",
"More than 70 percent of people say More than 70 percent of people are either very likely or somewhat likely to attend a town hall on health care, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey.",
"To find a meeting near you, determine who your senators and representatives are.",
"You can find this information on the House and Senate Web sites.",
"Some lawmakers have information about Some lawmakers's town hall meetings clearly listed on Some lawmakers's Web sites.",
"Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado, for example, has an \"events\" section detailing the time and location of Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado's upcoming meetings.",
"Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has a section called \"listening sessions.\"",
"It links to a map that shows where the meetings are by county.",
"Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa lists Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa's August meetings under the \"latest headlines\" section of Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa's Web site.",
"Not all of the lawmakers keep Not all of the lawmakers's Web sites up to date, and some don't have their town hall meetings listed online.",
"If that's the case, you also can call your senator or representative's office to get more information on upcoming events.",
"It's a good idea to call their office to confirm the time and location, even if the details are online.",
"Meetings are often rescheduled or relocated, and it never hurts to double-check.",
"Find out what time the doors open, and ask whether registration is required.",
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"Britons including Prime Minister Gordon Brown have leapt to the defense of Britons including Prime Minister Gordon Brown's creaking healthcare service after President Barack Obama's plans for a similar system in the United States were branded \"evil\" by Republicans.",
"Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a heartfelt message of support for NHS via Twitter.",
"Tens of thousands of people have joined a Twitter group expressing pride in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), which offers free taxpayer-funded medical care to all British residents, while leading politicians have spoken out in support.",
"Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin earlier this week condemned Obama's plans to introduce a public heath insurance scheme as an \"evil\" move that would result in \"death panels\" deciding who would live or die.",
"Republican former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's criticism has been echoed by fellow Republicans in direct attacks on NHS.",
"In an article, Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said British healthcare was run by \"Orwellian\" bureaucrats who put a price tag on life.",
"Sound off: What do you think of the British healthcare model?",
"The comments caused a storm of protest in the United Kingdom, with Prime Minister Brown wading into the argument via micro-blogging site Twitter, where a conversation chain, \"#welovetheNHS\", is generating huge online traffic.",
"Britons react to the U.S. healthcare debate » .",
"A posting on the 10 Downing Street Twitter site on Wednesday read: \"PM: NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death.",
"Thanks for always being there.\"",
"The message was followed by another, from Brown's wife Sarah, adding: \"#welovetheNHS -- more than words can say.\"",
"Professor Stephen Hawking, author of \"A Brief History of Time\", also spoke out in favor of the British system, telling the Guardian newspaper that he owes his life to NHS treatment for the neuro-muscular dystrophy he has suffered from for 40 years.",
"\"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for NHS,\" he said.",
"\"I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.\"",
"Despite the support, NHS is regularly the target of criticism at home, with opposition politicians accusing Brown's government of mismanagement resulting in long waiting lists and a \"lottery\" in deciding who gets life-saving drugs and surgery.",
"Nevertheless, opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron also added opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron's voice to the defense campaign with a posting on opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron's party's Web site.",
"\" Millions of people are grateful for the care Millions of people have received from the NHS -- including my own family.",
"\"One of the wonderful things about living in this country is that the moment you're injured or fall ill -- no matter who you are, where you are from, or how much money you've got -- you know that NHS will look after you.\"",
"opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron's statement followed comments from one of opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron's own party members backing the Republican criticism of NHS.",
"Dan Hannan, a Conservative member of the European Parliament reportedly said in an interview that \"he wouldn't wish it on anyone.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"You might think childbirth would be a topic too personal, too beautiful or way too graphic to write about on Twitter.",
"Sara, the wife of Twitter's CEO, posted online from a hospital while The wife of Twitter's CEO was in labor.",
"But, as The wife of Twitter's CEO showed on Tuesday when The wife of Twitter's CEO posted Twitter updates about giving birth to The wife of Twitter's CEO's child, online social networking has pushed online social networking's way into the delivery room.",
"It's now a trend for expectant moms to post to sites such as Twitter from the time expectant moms conceive to the moment expectant moms deliver a baby into the world.",
"Williams, wife of Twitter CEO Evan Williams, posted to The wife of Twitter's CEO's 14,000-plus Twitter followers when The wife of Twitter's CEO's water broke, when The wife of Twitter's CEO arrived at the hospital, during contractions and when The wife of Twitter's CEO decided to get an epidural.",
"The wife of Twitter's CEO's husband broke the news on Twitter's Twitter feed that their \"perfect baby boy\" was delivered on Tuesday afternoon.",
"As if the real-time drama of The wife of Twitter's CEO's labor wasn't enough, The wife of Twitter's CEO managed to spice up The wife of Twitter's CEO's Twitter feed with humor along the way.",
"\"Twitter, her water broke.",
"It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City,\" The wife of Twitter's CEO wrote at about midnight ET on Tuesday.",
"\"Now, timing contractions on an iPhone app.\"",
"After noting later that contractions are painful, The wife of Twitter's CEO wrote, \"Epidural, yes please.\"",
"The wife of Twitter's CEO's childbirth drew widespread attention online, where people who have never met The wife of Twitter's CEO eagerly awaited the birth of The wife of Twitter's CEO's baby.",
"Some moms and dads cheered The wife of Twitter's CEO on, saying that by posting through labor The wife of Twitter's CEO lifted the veil on a period that can be terrifying for pregnant women who don't know what to expect when their baby is ready to leave the womb.",
"Others cringed at the idea, saying childbirth posts are too much information.",
"The wife of Twitter's CEO's childbirth is among the first to be publicized though Twitter, but The wife of Twitter's CEO's far from the only woman to have published thoughts about the birth of her child while the process was happening.",
"Terra Carmichael, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said The wife of Twitter's CEO tweeted through The wife of Twitter's CEO's third childbirth in February to keep The wife of Twitter's CEO's loved ones up to date.",
"\"At the moment nothing went through my head.",
"It was just like, 'This is how I'm feeling and so this is going out there, and if you don't like it you don't have to read it,' \" said the 36-year-old.",
"\"Afterwards, I was like 'I hope I wasn't too gross or graphic.'\"",
"The wife of Twitter's CEO said posting to Twitter helped relieve some of the pain.",
"\"I would literally be coming down from a really painful contraction and I'd be saying, 'Give me my iPhone,' and [my husband] would be saying, 'You are weird.",
"Why are you doing this,'\" The wife of Twitter's CEO said.",
"\"Some of it was for The wife of Twitter's CEO.",
"It just felt kinda good to get that out there, put that out to the universe so it wasn't just my pain, so other people could feel it for The wife of Twitter's CEO and feel it with The wife of Twitter's CEO a little bit.\"",
"Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City, did the tweeting for Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City's wife.",
"While his wife was in labor, Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City was busy sending text messages.",
"\"the couple were on the couple's iPhone and Blackberry right up until the point when his wife started pushing, and then the couple had to put those phones down,\" Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City said.",
"Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City posted updates about Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City's wife's labor to Twitter by using code words only Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City's friends could understand.",
"Instead of posting \"my wife just gave birth,\" for instance, Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City wrote, \"Operation Bumblebee complete!",
"Ada Elizabeth is 7lbs, 2oz, and is very happy to be here.\"",
"Ada, who is the couple's first child, was born on August 5.",
"Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City has nearly 800 Twitter followers and didn't want everyone in the world to know about the \"blood and gore\" of the birthing process.",
"Most of the couple's friends and family live further West, Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City said, so the online networks helped the couple keep the couple's loved ones updated.",
"The senior editor at PCMag.com said Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City's wife was sending text messages to people throughout his wife's 10-hour labor.",
"\"his wife had an epidural so it was actually pretty easy for his wife,\" Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City said.",
"Debora Robertson, group manager of the Expectant Mother's Guide, said she wouldn't feel comfortable sharing so many details on Twitter, but making such information public could be helpful for pregnant women who are anxious about childbirth.",
"\"I think it's great that she [Sara Williams] can do that with family and friends, and I would imagine a lot of first time moms have curiosity,\" she said.",
"\"They're peeking into the delivery rooms.\"",
"Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City also said Twitter posts from the delivery room can be informative.",
"\"Going into it I had a lot of questions because no one really writes about this stuff\" online, Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City said.",
"Many new sites are promoting \"mom-to-mom wisdom\" as a way for expecting parents to become educated about childbirth, said Dina Freeman, spokeswoman for Freeman, an online resource for moms.",
"Freeman said one of Freeman's friends tweeted through childbirth.",
"Freeman had mixed feelings about the posts.",
"\"Although I was happy for the updates, I was like, 'Are you sure you want that on Twitter?'\"",
"New moms also are joining mom-specific social networks to get important questions answered, said Freeman, who manages the Baby Center's Facebook page.",
"Freeman said the wisdom of the crowd is useful, but sometimes Freeman recommends pregnant women and new moms see physicians for potentially serious health issues.",
"Moms are finding other ways to share Moms's pregnancies online, too.",
"A quick search on YouTube found more than 3,600 videos matching \"childbirth.\"",
"And a product called the Kickbee is a belt that wraps around a pregnant woman's stomach and automatically posts to a Twitter feed when the baby kicks.",
"Some people say too much technology in the delivery room is a bad thing.",
"\"I think it's terrible,\" Dr. Renana Brooks, a psychologist, told the Baltimore Sun in reference to people who post on Twitter during childbirth.",
"\"One of the few rituals we have, in terms of giving each other undivided attention, is that time in a delivery room.",
"To be spending time writing to someone else destroys the whole ritual.",
"\"That's like Twittering on your wedding night.",
"You can blog about it afterward.\"",
"the couple, however, said the couple're just trying to include as many friends and family members in the couple's special moment as possible.",
"\"I've got a lot of people in my life that I love,\" Carmichael said, \"and I want to keep up on their lives.",
"This is one of the biggest events of my life, and so [writing on Twitter] was my way of keeping people posted on what was happening.\"",
"After The wife of Twitter's CEO's wife gave birth on Tuesday, The wife of Twitter's CEO beamed on The wife of Twitter's CEO's Twitter feed.",
"\"Yes! @sara gave birth to a perfect baby boy,\" The wife of Twitter's CEO wrote.",
"\"Both are well.",
"8 pounds, 21 inches!",
"Smiles all around.\"",
"Moments later, friends responded with encouragement.",
"\"Yay!",
"the couple just had the couple's first baby and it's a boy -- can't wait to meet the mini CEO,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote."
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"(CNN) --",
"I have vivid memories of childhood.",
"The 5-year-old girl with endless questions; The 5-year-old girl with endless questions wanted to discover the secrets of the entire world within minutes.",
"The 5-year-old girl with endless questions dreamed of being a doctor once, an engineer another time, and a mother of lovely kids.",
"A dreamer, this is how I would describe the little girl Reem.",
"Reem is a 22-year-old student living in Gaza City.",
"Days passed fast.",
"Reem couldn't remember a lot of them, but Reem had some moments left in Reem's memory -- usually the happy moments of Reem's life -- and those memories were the basis for today's Reem, the 22-year-old girl who is ME.",
"I remember how happy I was when my teacher announced to the school that I was first in my class.",
"I remember my mother's voice singing to Reem before I fell asleep; I remember my father running behind my kite when I lost it in the air, and I remember me asking my parents for a real monkey as a pet.",
"I can't forget the day I finished high school; I felt so grown up.",
"I remember the day when the school announced the exam results and the tears of happiness my mother shed when I received a grade of excellent, and then I decided to enroll in the college of Business Administration.",
"I can call Gaza City the city of qualifications, where a lot of youth are qualified for good jobs.",
"I am one of those youth who is volunteering in organizations, participating in community service activities, getting trained in various skills and getting more qualified day by day.",
"But many young people like Reem cannot find jobs.",
"See perspectives from Palestinian youth » .",
"Sometimes, I feel disconnected from Gaza, but whenever I see the photos of Jaffa, I realize that it's where I and a thousand refugees belong.",
"I find Reem crying, missing a place I have never been to, but it's where my parents and my grandparents lived.",
"I remember all those bedtime stories my grandmother used to tell me about the land, the fence of roses they had, and her climbing trees and cutting fruits.",
"How I miss that place.",
"But life must go on.",
"My day starts with the smile of optimism and the plan of My day.",
"Waking up early to go to my university; I have to attend all of my lectures even though some are boring.",
"My friends are a big part of My day.",
"We start with our updates and then go to courses where we can develop our skills.",
"When I arrive home, I feel so exhausted, but still I continue working and studying hard.",
"I am always looking for chances for personal development, whether through volunteer work or at school.",
"I was offered a great opportunity to volunteer with the aid organization Mercy Corps as a founding member of the Why Not? youth program, and then I had the pleasure of seeing this program blossom into the Global Citizen Corps, or GCC, a cultural exchange between Palestinian and American students.",
"I believe this program is deeply important because this program changes the negative impression of Palestinian youth that is too often spread by media.",
"All my friends and 1,000 others are engaged in this program, which develops our personalities, our skills and serves the community.",
"We use digital media as a tool to express what we feel and what we do.",
"We make changes in ourselves, in our community, and we pave the way for global change.",
"We are thinking globally and acting locally.",
"My ambition is to be a researcher in business studies all over the world.",
"I finished my B.A. and a diploma of business studies, and I hope to obtain a scholarship to do graduate work in media and development.",
"I am also interested in the field of project management and human interaction management.",
"I know it is a good ambition to be Ph.D. holder and a worldwide researcher, but as Palestinian girl, I have fewer opportunities, not because I am not qualified or hard-working enough but because I am Palestinian.",
"Usually Palestinian students have fewer opportunities than others to get scholarships, because it's hard for Palestinian students to leave the Gaza Strip, as all of the borders are closed.",
"But I have not lost hope, and I will not.",
"I will keep trying to pursue my dream of being the researcher I want to be.",
"It's true that I am a girl, and girls face some challenges in our society.",
"For example, I can't stay a late hour at work.",
"But I am so happy and honored to be a Muslim; putting the scarf on my head is something that I love.",
"To many foreigners, it might seem to be against women's freedom, but I can tell that when a lady is convinced of it, it becomes part of a lady's self-esteem, a lady's self-confidence and a lady's protection each day.",
"I feel sad when the world gets angry at Muslim girls while Muslim girls are peaceful and happy, enjoying Muslim girls's choices and freedom.",
"I found that I'm not that different from Catherine, who lives in the United States and whom I contact through the Global Citizen Corps.",
"I have realized how similar Palestinian youth are to youth all over the world.",
"Catherine likes some of the food I like, and Catherine loves swimming just like I do.",
"There are also lovely differences between us: I tried to cook what Catherine taught me once, and Catherine is learning Arabic now.",
"Maybe our lifestyle is different.",
"I focus on my own development; I spend most of my time working to become a more qualified person with more knowledge and skills.",
"I do not work hard because I am super girl or I aspire to be one but because I always want to be ready for the worst situation.",
"In Palestine where I live, surprises can happen at any time, and I don't want to be caught off guard.",
"I want to make my future secure by being a really good person.",
"I deserve to live.",
"I enjoy my life as it is now, but I hope that when I find a scholarship and live in the West, I will not be obliged to take off my scarf and won't hear negative comments about me because I am Muslim.",
"I consider religion a personal freedom that is related to your beliefs and what you feel in your heart.",
"I love letting others live in peace.",
"... Why can't we enjoy peace, too?",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer."
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"The much-maligned symbol of motoring in Communist East Germany, the Trabant, is set to make an unlikely comeback as a concept car at this year's International Motor Show in Frankfurt.",
"The old-style Trabi is a common sight in Germany where tourist operators use the car for local tours.",
"Designers have replaced the car's smoke-belching two-stroke engine with electric fuel cells and solar-powered air-conditioning.",
"This, Designers promise, is not the four-wheeled object of ridicule that rolled off production lines in East Germany from 1957 until 1991.",
"This is the new Trabant, or Trabi as they're known, an energy-efficient city car for modern drivers.",
"\"I think the market will be people who say Car was a cool car, and people who want to have a stylish car, and want to have a green car,\" Daniel Stiegler, of Herpa Miniaturemodelle, told CNN.",
"Herpa is not a carmaker, at least not in the traditional sense.",
"Herpa makes model cars and airplanes, of the type that sit in display cabinets, not garages.",
"Two years ago, a member of Herpa's management team, Klaus Schindler, decided it was time to make a miniature model of Car.",
"Herpa took it to the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in 2007 and were stunned by the response.",
"\"Herpa had a special folder where people at the fair could fill out and give it back to use.",
"Herpa had about 14,000 reactions on that, and most of them, 90 percent, said 'Yes, Car is a really cool car, let's bring Car back,'\" Stiegler said.",
"Herpa teamed up with German auto parts maker IndiKar, which has designed a prototype to be unveiled at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in September.",
"They hope to attract enough interest to put the car back into production.",
"The early response of Trabi enthusiasts to an electric version of their much-loved cars has been encouraging.",
"\"This will be an ideal vehicle to try it on,\" Geoff Armitage, who had been the president or chairman of the Wartburg Trabant IFA Club UK on and off for some 18 years.",
"\"If they go for the same type of cladding of duroplast, or western-style glass fibre, you have a light body which obviously will be an advantage for an electric car.\"",
"The original exterior of the cars was made from duroplast, a blend of cast-off cotton fibers from Russia mixed with glue.",
"Armitage bought Armitage's first Trabant in the Netherlands in 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
"Over the years, Armitage's owned around 20 of the German cars, adding \"we have several restoration projects in the yard at the moment.\"",
"Like many admirers, Armitage appreciates the Trabi's simplicity.",
"\"They are basic technology.",
"There is absolutely nothing that we can't repair ourselves.",
"If we can't get the parts we can usually make them,\" Armitage laughed.",
"\"If they can do the electrical conversion, for want of a better term, in a relatively low-tech way so they keep it simple I think it could be a success,\" Armitage said.",
"German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr spent four years making a documentary about the Trabant.",
"German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr became fascinated about the car's origins as a child growing up in the East where residents faced up to a fourteen-year wait for delivery of residents's vehicles.",
"\"There was only a certain contingent, a certain amount, allowed every year, because they didn't have enough screws, they didn't have enough parts,\" German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr said.",
"For German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr's documentary, \"A Car For A Dollar,\" German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr interviewed former Trabant engineers and owners and found an abundance of nostalgia for the old-style vehicles, despite their association with Communist repression.",
"\"People remember it as People's only partner in crime,\" German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr said.",
"\"It was the one and only thing that brought People around the country.",
"People weren't allowed to go far.",
"Car was the only vehicle People could use and Car was always reliable, most times.\"",
"Many of the cars were dumped by the cars's owners as soon as the cars'd driven them to freedom over the border from East to West.",
"German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr said it didn't take long for nostalgia to kick in and the first Trabi appreciation meeting was held in 1990, just one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
"Of plans for a new, eco-friendly Trabi, German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr says, \"\"I think it's great.",
"People would probably love it, I think it will sell.",
"Big time.\"",
"If the modern Trabant fails to materialize, there's always the option to step back in time in the original version.",
"Trabis can still be seen slowly weaving through traffic, particularly in Berlin and Dresden, where Trabi-Safari leads tourists in a procession of up to six cars to local points of interest."
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"An illegal immigrant dishwasher who lost $49,000 to the U.S. government as Pedro Zapeta tried to take it home to Guatemala will get some of the money back, Pedro Zapeta's attorney said Wednesday.",
"Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant, managed to save $59,000 while working as a dishwasher for 11 years.",
"Pedro Zapeta was \"very, very happy\" when Pedro Zapeta learned about a federal appeals court ruling that says Pedro Zapeta is entitled to recover some of the money, said attorney Robert Gershman, who handled the financial end of Pedro Zapeta's case.",
"Pedro Zapeta was carrying $59,000 in cash when Pedro Zapeta was stopped at a security checkpoint at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in 2005.",
"Pedro Zapeta told authorities Pedro Zapeta was returning home to Guatemala with the money the money had saved working illegally as a dishwasher over 11 years.",
"But federal law requires that anyone leaving or entering the country with $10,000 or more must declare it.",
"Because Pedro Zapeta had not done so, Pedro Zapeta was detained, and Pedro Zapeta's money was seized.",
"The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the judge who fined Pedro Zapeta applied an incorrect standard in determining the amount to be forfeited.",
"The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a hearing to set a new fine.",
"\"I am extremely happy,\" Zapeta said.",
"\"Even though Pedro Zapeta is not a citizen, it shows Pedro Zapeta has equal rights.\"",
"Zapeta has said Zapeta, who does not speak English, was not trying to conceal the money but did not know federal law.",
"Pedro Zapeta had paid taxes on the earnings, Zapeta said, and under legal guidelines should be fined at most $5,000 for failing to report that Pedro Zapeta was traveling with the cash.",
"Circuit Court Judge James Cohn instead fined Pedro Zapeta $49,000, all the money he was carrying over the $10,000 limit.",
"\"The government always acted as if the money was The government's own,\" Zapeta said.",
"\"The government acted almost entitled to it.",
"But it's not The government's money.",
"It was Pedro's, and The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that.\"",
"Pedro Zapeta said last year that Pedro Zapeta had saved the money to build a house for Pedro Zapeta and Pedro Zapeta's family in Pedro Zapeta's home village in the Guatemalan mountains.",
"Pedro Zapeta returned to Guatemala this year under the threat of deportation, but Pedro Zapeta's lawyers continued to argue that Pedro Zapeta's fine was excessive.",
"Federal prosecutors in Miami did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision or on whether Federal prosecutors in Miami will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"As Zapeta's case was publicized, U.S. residents donated money to Pedro Zapeta, and Zapeta set up a trust.",
"It has received about $15,000 in donations, Zapeta said."
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"FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Like many young boys, Iraqi boy loves playing with toy cars and wants to be a policeman like Iraqi boy's father when Iraqi boy grows up.",
"But it was Iraqi boy's father's very job that caused the tiny child to suffer the unimaginable.",
"Khidir, now 8, was kidnapped and held hostage for two years by operatives with al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"Iraqi boy was just 6 years old when Iraqi boy was savagely ripped away from Iraqi boy's family, kidnapped by al Qaeda operatives in Iraq.",
"\"Terrorists beat me with a shovel, Terrorists pulled my teeth out with pliers, Terrorists would go like this and pull my teeth,\" said Khidir, now 8, demonstrating with Iraqi boy's hands.",
"\"And Terrorists would make me work on the farm gathering carrots.\"",
"What followed was even more horrific, an ordeal that would last for two years in captivity.",
"Iraqi boy and Iraqi boy's father spoke to CNN recently, more than half a year after Iraqi boy's rescue by Iraqi police.",
"Watch Iraqi boy describe torture » .",
"\"This is where Terrorists hammered a nail into my leg and then Terrorists pulled a nail out,\" Iraqi boy says, lifting up Iraqi boy's pant leg to show a tiny wound.",
"Iraqi boy says Iraqi boy's captors also pulled out each of Iraqi boy's tiny fingernails, broke both Iraqi boy's arms, and beat Iraqi boy repeatedly on the side of the head with a shovel.",
"Iraqi boy still suffers chronic headaches.",
"Iraqi boy remembers Terrorists laughing as Terrorists inflicted the pain.",
"\"I would think about my mommy and daddy,\" Iraqi boy replies, when asked how Iraqi boy managed to get through the agony.",
"Iraqi boy's father, Abdul Qader, struggles for words.",
"\"When Iraqi boy tells me about how Terrorists would torture Iraqi boy, I can't tolerate it.",
"I start crying,\" he says.",
"\"What hurts me the most is when Terrorists hammered a nail into Iraqi boy's leg.\"",
"his father, was sleeping at the police station in Falluja when his father's son was kidnapped.",
"It was too dangerous to go home regularly.",
"Although Falluja was no longer controlled by insurgents, assassinations against police were common.",
"\"I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion ... and then I heard my name on the radio.",
"I ran outside and they came to his father saying your house was blown up,\" his father says.",
"\"When the police patrol came back, they all started kissing and comforting me,\" his father continues.",
"\"I was asking, 'What's going on? Where is my family?'",
"Terrorists told me that Terrorists took Iraqi boy.",
"This was a disaster.",
"I went mad that day, I wasn't normal, I was hysterical.\"",
"Khidir's grandmother was at home with my family at the time.",
"\"Terrorists climbed the fence and kicked in the door,\" Khidir's grandmother says.\"They were screaming for his father.",
"I told Terrorists his father's not here.",
"Terrorists called me a liar and said Terrorists want his father's son.",
"his father's son was hiding behind me, clutching my clothes.",
"I said this is not his father's son.",
"Terrorists hit me on the back with a rifle and ripped Iraqi boy out of my arms.\"",
"The last thing she remembers were Iraqi boy's screams of \"Granny, Granny!\"",
"The attackers rigged the house with explosives and demolished the house before taking off with the 6-year-old.",
"Iraqi boy's grandmother and seven other family members rushed out of the home before the house exploded.",
"\"Terrorists called me on the phone and demanded that some prisoners that we had be released or Terrorists would slit his throat,\" Khidir's father says.",
"\"But I said no to the release.",
"I would not put killers back out on the street that would hurt other Muslims.",
"So I thought to his father, 'Let Iraqi boy be a martyr.' \"",
"his father even held a secret funeral for his father's little boy.",
"his father didn't want to tell the rest of the family that his father had refused Terrorists's ultimatum, allowing them to hope that Iraqi boy was still alive.",
"Last December, nearly two years later, police in Taji, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) away, received a tip that terrorists were holding kidnapped children.",
"\"We thought that it was just a tip to ambush us, but we considered the mission as a sacrifice,\" said Iraqi police Capt. Khalib Ali.",
"\"Either we find the children and free the children or face the danger and take the risk.\"",
"a tip that terrorists were holding kidnapped children led the Iraqi police to a rundown farm and a series of mud huts.",
"Khidir's tiny body was twisted abnormally.",
"And in another hut, they found another child.",
"Two children are still believed to be with Terrorists.",
"Al Qaeda in Iraq has historically kidnapped children for money, to pressure officials, and even to use in terrorist attacks.",
"For his father, it was as if his father's son had come back from the dead.",
"\"Iraqi boy didn't recognize Iraqi boy's mother or Iraqi boy's grandmother,\" Abdul Qader says.",
"\"But then Iraqi boy saw me in uniform and ran to me.",
"I went flying toward Iraqi boy to hug Iraqi boy.",
"People said be careful; both Iraqi boy's arms are broken.",
"So I held Iraqi boy from Iraqi boy's waist, and Iraqi boy hugged me, kissed me, smelled me, and then broke into a smile.\"",
"his father flips through old family photos -- all my family were able to salvage from my family's destroyed home -- and notes some of Terrorists are still at large.",
"his father still fears for his father's son's safety, but says his father won't quit the police force.",
"\"Never, never,\" his father says.",
"\"If I leave the police force, if others leave the force, who will protect my family from the terrorists?",
"my family are the only ones.\"",
"CNN's Yousif Bassil contributed to this report."
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"\"Terrorists pulled my teeth out with pliers,\" Iraqi boy tells CNN .",
"Dad says his father won't leave police force despite intimidation, threats ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Friday after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj at a hospital in Khartoum after Sami al-Hajj's release from Guantanamo Bay.",
"\"I was so happy that I cried,\" Sami al-Hajj told the Qatar-based Arabic news network by phone from Sami al-Hajj's hospital room, where Sami al-Hajj was taken after arriving at the airport.",
"\"It is our right to be happy and to rejoice, but we also miss our brothers that we left behind and who live in very difficult conditions.\"",
"An official with the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said the transfer brought to an end a matter that the United States and Sudan considered to be \"of great mutual concern.\"",
"Al-Hajj, a Sudanese citizen in Sami al-Hajj's late 30s, was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 by Pakistani intelligence officers and handed over to the United States, which accused Sami al-Hajj of being an \"enemy combatant.\"",
"A senior Pentagon official confirmed the journalist's release.",
"Sami al-Hajj was held without being charged or given a trial, Al-Jazeera reported.",
"The cameraman was on a legitimate assignment and carried a work visa at the time of Sami al-Hajj's capture, Al-Jazeera said.",
"Al-Jazeera also reported that the U.S. plane that carried Sami al-Hajj had about 20 other former detainees aboard who also had been released from Guantanamo Bay.",
"the U.S. plane that carried al-Hajj dropped off a Moroccan national, identified as Al-Saeed Bou Jaadiya, Al-Jazeera said.",
"Al-Jazeera aired video showing a bearded Sami al-Hajj being carried from the plane in Khartoum by U.S. military personnel and laid on a stretcher.",
"Sami al-Hajj was transported to Al-Amal Hospital.",
"\"Sami al-Hajj was brought in here by ambulance and entered to the intensive care unit on a stretcher,\" said Al-Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar from Al-Amal Hospital.",
"\"Sami al-Hajj was exhausted and very sick, and Sami al-Hajj's receiving the necessary care in Al-Amal Hospital.\"",
"Khanfar said Khanfar was awaiting word from doctors on Sami al-Hajj's medical condition.",
"In a statement, U.S. Charge D'Affaires Alberto Fernandez of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said the transfer \"is a result of many factors and the work of many hands.",
"An important one was the cooperation between the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum and the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Intelligence and Security Service.\"",
"Sami al-Hajj had been on a hunger strike for more than a year and was being force-fed, said Zachary Katznelson, a lawyer who has worked on Sami al-Hajj's case since August 2005 and last visited Sami al-Hajj three weeks ago.",
"\"Sami al-Hajj is remarkably thin,\" Katznelson said.",
"\"Sami al-Hajj looks like an ill man.\"",
"Sami al-Hajj was conscious, but did not appear to speak to anyone as paramedics rolled Sami al-Hajj's stretcher inside.",
"Family members stooped to kiss Sami al-Hajj as the gurney passed.",
"\"I would have hoped Family members were here with Sami al-Hajj now.",
"I look forward to the moment,\" Sami al-Hajj said told Al-Jazeera before being reunited with Sami al-Hajj's family.",
"Earlier, Sami al-Hajj's wife spoke to Al-Jazeera about al-Hajj's's release.",
"\"Now I can think differently,\" Asma Ismailov said.",
"\"Now I can plan my life differently.",
"Everything will be all right, God willing.\"",
"Sami al-Hajj's young son, Mohammed, said Al-Hajj's young son, Mohammed would \"kiss Sami al-Hajj's head\" when Al-Hajj's young son, Mohammed sees Al-Hajj's young son, Mohammed's father.",
"\"I'll tell Sami al-Hajj that I love Sami al-Hajj and I need Sami al-Hajj.\"",
"The Sudanese government told Al-Jazeera that Sami al-Hajj faced no charges in Sudan and is a free man.",
"Al-Jazeera also said the United States placed some conditions on Sami al-Hajj's release, including one that prevents Sami al-Hajj from any political activity.",
"Reporters Without Borders, which campaigned for al-Hajj's's release, said in a statement that the cameraman \"never should have been held so long.\"",
"\"U.S. authorities never proved that Sami al-Hajj had been involved in any kind of criminal activity,\" the worldwide press freedom group said.",
"the worldwide press freedom group said Sami al-Hajj was accused of gun-smuggling for al Qaeda and running an Islamist Web site, although no evidence supporting those charges was produced.",
"\"We are delighted that Sami al-Hajj can finally be reunited with Sami al-Hajj's family and friends,\" said Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.",
"\"But Sami al-Hajj's detention for six years, without the most basic due process, is a grave injustice and represents a threat to all journalists working in conflict areas.\"",
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"(CNN) --",
"Driving over a pothole may not be a big deal for most people, but for Jeff Bell, it was a source of endless frustration.",
"Jeff Bell found treatment for OCD very difficult, but says it helped Jeff Bell turn Jeff Bell's life around.",
"Afraid that Jeff Bell had injured a person, Jeff Bell would drive back to each pothole again and again to check, and Jeff Bell lost a lot of time in the process.",
"\"I knew that my behaviors made no sense.",
"I knew that my thoughts that were triggering my behaviors made no sense, and yet I felt so helpless to do anything about it,\" Jeff Bell said.",
"Bell, a news anchor with KCBS Radio in San Francisco, California, now knows that Jeff Bell's condition has a name: obsessive-compulsive disorder.",
"Jeff Bell frequently speaks out about OCD and has written a memoir called \"Rewind, Replay, Repeat.\"",
"Psychologists are debating where OCD belongs in relation to other psychiatric disorders, and whether certain symptoms are actually part of other conditions.",
"OCD affects as many as 4 million Americans, according to the International OCD Foundation, for which Bell is a spokesman.",
"In a class of its own?",
"Currently, OCD sits with anxiety disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association to help diagnose mental illness.",
"The next edition will be released in 2012, according to the American Psychiatric Association.",
"Many experts, such as Jonathan Abramowitz, professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, believe OCD should stay with anxiety disorders.",
"That's because people with the disorder tend to engage in repetitive behaviors to reduce anxiety.",
"Watch CNN's Elizabeth Landau talk more about OCD » .",
"There is mixed evidence based on brain scans that OCD has a separate biological mechanism, leading some psychiatrists to favor classifying OCD separately, Abramowitz said.",
"\"We haven't exactly pinned down what might be the problem,\" Abramowitz said.",
"Categorizing related symptoms .",
"Checking for evidence of harm done, as in Bell's case, is one of many manifestations of OCD.",
"Some people are overly afraid of germs, while others are overwhelmed by thoughts of violence or sex, or fear that they have \"sinned,\" and still others spend countless hours arranging objects, said Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the International OCD Foundation.",
"There are also people with OCD who repeat behaviors a fixed number of times because \"it will undo the thought or image that came to mind that you didn't want,\" Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the International OCD Foundation said.",
"Behaviors such as compulsive gambling are in a different category, Abramowitz said.",
"A key difference is that those people enjoy gambling, while a person with OCD does not get pleasure from the behaviors he or she repeats.",
"There is also controversy over whether trichotillomania -- compulsive hair pulling -- falls under OCD, because it is characterized by a repetitive behavior, but not necessarily obsessive thoughts, Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the International OCD Foundation said.",
"Tics and Tourette syndrome also are OCD-related.",
"Most people with OCD realize that Most people with OCD's compulsions are irrational, but about 4 percent do not, Abramowitz said.",
"Hoarders, who compulsively acquire objects without throwing anything away, tend to have less \"insight into the senselessness of Hoarders, who compulsively acquire objects without throwing anything away's symptoms\" than others with OCD, Abramowitz said.",
"This is one of the reasons that hoarding may be distinct from OCD altogether, Abramowitz said.",
"Hoarders also do not respond as well to traditional treatments.",
"Randy Frost, psychologist at Smith College, said only 5 percent of hoarders have an OCD basis for hoarders; the rest may have other OCD-related problems or none at all.",
"Treating OCD and hoarding .",
"Doctors may prescribe drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for OCD symptoms.",
"But for some people this is only part of the solution, Szymanski said.",
"The other first-line treatment is called exposure and response prevention, which forces people with the condition to confront people's fears.",
"This helps people to stop engaging in behaviors, such as checking potholes, which would normally be people's means of escaping those fears.",
"Jeff Bell found The other first-line treatment so difficult that Jeff Bell initially lied to Jeff Bell's therapist about doing the homework she assigned.",
"But once Jeff Bell became serious about the therapy, Jeff Bell felt as if Jeff Bell was turning Jeff Bell's life around.",
"Jeff Bell also learned to externalize the force behind intrusive thoughts -- Jeff Bell calls it the \"doubt bully.\"",
"\"The key is to find those things in life that motivate us to sit with the discomfort of our anxiety through this treatment process to get better,\" Jeff Bell said.",
"Researchers at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, and Smith College and Boston University in Massachusetts, are collaborating on a new treatment for hoarders.",
"Researchers at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, and Smith College and Boston University in Massachusetts've just finished collecting data from 46 participants, Frost said.",
"The treatment targets acquisition, discarding, and disorganization, Frost said.",
"That's because people who compulsively hoard tend to buy or pick up too many things, keep things rather than throw anything out, and create clutter.",
"To help with \"acquisition,\" therapists try to help people understand people's attachment to people's possessions.",
"For example, the therapist will ask the patient how upset he or she will be if a piece of paper is thrown away, and then test that prediction by throwing a piece of paper away.",
"Researchers have found that participants who hoard do not get as upset as participants who hoard anticipated when participants who hoard dispose of the paper, Frost said.",
"OCD is sometimes as hard on loved ones as on the patients themselves, Jeff Bell said.",
"Family members may even become enablers, unintentionally fueling the cycle, Jeff Bell said.",
"\"Often times, it involves family members meeting with a trained therapist who can help give family members guidelines as to what is helpful and what's counterproductive,\" Jeff Bell said.",
"For more information, visit the International OCD Foundation or Jeff Bell's outreach site Beyond the Doubt."
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"There is some debate about whether it is an anxiety disorder or something else .",
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"(CNN) --",
"New details have emerged about a Jewish immigrant who fled Austria as World War II was brewing, lived frugally in New York and left an estate whose size -- $300,000 -- astounded some.",
"Ida Blumin fled Austria in 1938 for the U.S. and married Walter Fischer, who earned money performing odd jobs.",
"In a story published Monday, CNN and other news organizations reported neither Ida Fischer's name nor much else about Ida Fischer, except for the fact that Ida Fischer had donated half of Ida Fischer's estate to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a school with which Ida Fischer had had no known contact.",
"Since then, CNN has contacted two of Ida Fischer's friends and a relative, who have identified Ida Fischer as Ida Fischer, who was born Ida Blumin in 1911 in Vienna.",
"Ida Fischer, who was born Ida Blumin in 1911 in Vienna said Ida Fischer was neither a concentration camp survivor nor had Ida Fischer ever been homeless, as the school originally reported.",
"Ida Fischer's life story, however, was still remarkable.",
"In 1938, Ida Fischer, Ida Fischer's mother, Ida Fischer's sister and Ida Fischer's sister's husband fled Austria, said Peter Last, a Jewish collectible coin and banknote wholesaler who lived on East 32nd Street and befriended Ida Fischer 20 years ago, when Ida Fischer lived a block away.",
"The Blumins made The Blumins's home in New York, where The Blumins had relatives.",
"The 5-foot-2-inch immigrant married Walter Fischer, another Austrian, who earned money performing odd jobs.",
"The couple lived with Ida Fischer's mother; Ida Fischer earned money from a variety of office jobs.",
"Fischer, who was in Ida Fischer's mid-70s when Last met Ida Fischer in the late 1980s, gave the impression that Ida Fischer was just scraping by, Ida Fischer said.",
"\"Ida Fischer hung around on the street and talked to everybody and people gave Ida Fischer's food and clothes,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"\"Ida Fischer was very thrifty.\"",
"Ida Fischer once traveled with Ida Fischer's mother to Israel, but did not appear particularly religious, Last said.",
"Gabor Szanto, who met Ida Fischer nearly 40 years ago upon Fischer's arrival in the United States from Hungary by way of Italy, disagreed, saying Fischer's friend observed all the high holidays.",
"\"I used to take Ida Fischer to the synagogue,\" said the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Ida Fischer's hair for free.",
"the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Fischer's hair for free received 25 percent of Ida Fischer's estate.",
"\"Ida Fischer was a great believer in God.\"",
"the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Fischer's hair for free described Ida Fischer as \"a free spirit.\"",
"\"Ida Fischer would say Ida Fischer liked weak men and strong coffee,\" the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Fischer's hair for free said.",
"\"Ida Fischer was always being taken out to eat by one person or another; people bought Ida Fischer's things, bought Ida Fischer's food, bought Ida Fischer's newspapers.",
"But Ida Fischer wasn't a down-and-out bag lady with a pushcart like the people in the movie.",
"Ida Fischer was very neat, clean and Ida Fischer was a decent person.\"",
"the hair colorist who has a shop on the Upper West Side and cut Fischer's hair for free said Ida Fischer's penny pinching was understandable \"because Ida Fischer lived through the Depression.\"",
"Ida Fischer said that, throughout the years he knew Ida Fischer, Ida Fischer lived on East 31st Street in a 10th-floor, sparsely furnished one-bedroom apartment in a building for senior citizens.",
"Ida Fischer's rent -- about $145 per month -- was even lower than Her rent -- about $145 per month -- would have been because Ida Fischer reported housing code violations in Ida Fischer's apartment to authorities, who then declined to approve rent hikes, Ida Fischer said.",
"But Ida Fischer spent much of Ida Fischer's time outside the building, where Ida Fischer sat on a bench dressed in old clothes and carried on a busy social life.",
"\"Everyone knew Ida Fischer,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"\"Everybody in the diner on the corner knew Ida Fischer.\"",
"Among Ida Fischer's coterie was Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche Devereaux on \"The Golden Girls\" and lived on the block, Ida Fischer said.",
"Neighbors would sometimes give Ida Fischer's items Neighbors no longer wanted.",
"Ida Fischer's frugality was legend: Ida Fischer recycled greeting cards, crossing off the name of the original recipient and replacing the name of the original recipient with the new one.",
"\"Ida Fischer'd write on the top of it: 'From Ida,'\" Last said.",
"Instead of paying extra to get an unlisted telephone number, Ida Fischer simply listed it under someone else's name, Ida Fischer said.",
"Occasionally, Last, now 74, would treat Ida Fischer's neighbor to a meal at the diner or a nearby delicatessen, where Ida Fischer's favorite dishes included lox.",
"Though Ida Fischer was not thin, Ida Fischer would rarely finish what was on Ida Fischer's plate.",
"\"A lot of it, Ida Fischer would take home,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"\"Ida Fischer'd take all the sugar and all the napkins; Ida Fischer'd bring extra jars to take coffee home in.\"",
"Ida Fischer always picked up the tab.",
"\"There was never any question,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"\"I don't think Ida Fischer ever bought anything.\"",
"Last, who was also born in Austria, helped Ida Fischer increase Ida Fischer's monthly pension from the Austrian government.",
"Ida Fischer also helped Ida Fischer's augment Ida Fischer's income, giving Ida Fischer $5 to sit in Ida Fischer's Peugeot on days when the street sweeper went by so that Ida Fischer would not get a parking ticket.",
"One day, Ida Fischer asked Last about a flier Ida Fischer had received offering to help residents write residents's will for free.",
"\"I looked into it and I found that this was the Brooklyn Law School; they would send a lawyer who would take two students to people's houses and do their wills, so I said, 'It's OK.'\"",
"Ida Fischer asked Last to serve as executor and Ida Fischer agreed.",
"Ida Fischer also told Ida Fischer that Ida Fischer would leave Ida Fischer money, but Last was unimpressed.",
"\"I never thought Ida Fischer had any real money,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"\"Ida Fischer was enough of a pest that I told Ida Fischer, 'No, I don't want it.'\"",
"Ida Fischer took Ida Fischer at Ida Fischer's word.",
"Instead, Ida Fischer left a quarter of Ida Fischer's $300,000 estate to Ida Fischer's wife, Silvia, a quarter to Szanto and half to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where a spokesman said the school was grateful for the donation, but had no idea what inspired it.",
"Though Ida Fischer remained alert until the end, Ida Fischer faltered physically during Ida Fischer's final months, when Ida Fischer \"very reluctantly\" hired a woman to take care of Ida Fischer.",
"\"Ida Fischer didn't want to pay for it,\" Last said.",
"Ida Fischer died in 2007 of heart failure, Ida Fischer said.",
"Last said Ida Fischer had told Ida Fischer Ida Fischer had no relatives, but Ida Fischer discovered after Ida Fischer's death that Ida Fischer had not been truthful.",
"\"It turned out there was a sister and a nephew that Ida Fischer wasn't on speaking terms with,\" Ida Fischer said.",
"Even after Ida Fischer died, Ida Fischer continued to learn about Ida Fischer's friend's penurious ways.",
"When Ida Fischer went to a bank to carry out Ida Fischer's duties as executor of the will, a vice president told Ida Fischer Ida Fischer had taken advantage years before of a promotional offer of a year's free access to a safe deposit box, Ida Fischer said.",
"But after the year elapsed, Ida Fischer refused to pay the $100 annual fee, Ida Fischer said.",
"So Ida Fischer told Ida Fischer Ida Fischer kept Ida Fischer's Series E savings bonds for $60,000 in Ida Fischer's desk drawer, Ida Fischer said.",
"Though the size of Ida Fischer's total savings surprised Ida Fischer, Ida Fischer said Ida Fischer's dogged thrift could have explained it.",
"Ida Fischer calculated that -- between Ida Fischer's pension from Austria and Ida Fischer's $800 monthly check from Social Security -- Ida Fischer's monthly income was about $2,000, of which Ida Fischer spent only about $500.",
"Ida Fischer's sister -- from whom Ida Fischer had long been estranged -- died a few months ago, said Ida Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.",
"Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey said Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey last saw Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey's aunt more than three decades ago at a family get-together.",
"\"She was a live wire,\" quick to pound out a waltz on the piano or to dance.",
"Fischer's nephew, Peter Lynwander, who lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey was not surprised at the sum of Ida Fischer's savings: \"Ida Fischer worked all Ida Fischer's life and Ida Fischer didn't live high.",
"So I don't think that's all that unusual.\"",
"CNN's story published Monday quoted a spokesman for the school as saying Ida Fischer had survived a concentration camp and lived homeless on the streets of New York.",
"Ida Fischer's friends and Ida Fischer's nephew said neither was true.",
"On Friday, school spokesman Richard Dukas said the discrepancies were the result of a miscommunication.",
"Hebrew University \"regrets misinterpreting the facts about Ida Fischer's amazing and generous story,\" school spokesman Richard Dukas said.",
"\"What is clear is that Ida Fischer was a remarkable woman who has made a difference by supporting research and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, something that will have an impact far beyond the borders of the state of Israel.\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"The sleek, dark wood has all the characteristics of endangered mahogany from Peru's Amazon rainforest.",
"Norwegian company is targeting decking manufacturers and boat builders as potential clients of Norwegian company's modified sustainable wood.",
"In reality, it was manufactured in Norway, in a five-day process that instills all the qualities of rare, tropical hardwood into sustainable softwood.",
"The company that makes Norwegian company, Kebony, says it comes with none of the environmental cost.",
"\"This is a mega turn, people have to act,\" Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen told CNN.",
"\"Norwegian company have a green solution for the tropical wood market and Norwegian company are there to take the tropical wood market or at least be part of the tropical wood market.\"",
"Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen talks to CNN » .",
"The global market for wood products from tropical forests is estimated to be worth some $20 billion each year, according to the International Tropical Timber Organization.",
"Most of the wood on the world market now comes from Southeast Asia and Africa, according to the Rainforest Foundation Norway.",
"Tighter controls on logging in Brazil have reduced the amount of hardwood being shipped out of the Amazon, once a popular source for the finest quality mahogany, teak and cedar.",
"\"Each tree is worth maybe $25,000-$40,000 on The global market for wood products from tropical forests.",
"And there are lots of trees being taken out [worldwide] -- so this is a large business, a huge business,\" said Lars Løvold, director of the Rainforest Foundation Norway.",
"The United Nations estimates some 13 million hectares of forest are lost worldwide each year, equivalent to an area the size of Greece or Nicaragua.",
"Their absence is said to contribute more carbon emissions each year than the global transport sector.",
"Demand for luxury hardwood is by no means the main cause of deforestation.",
"Clearing land for agriculture and the collection of wood for fuel are the main drivers, but Løvold said the lucrative market for hardwood provides a compelling incentive for loggers to move into previously untouched areas.",
"\"Almost all deforestation starts with the logging,\" Løvold told CNN.",
"\"the logging doesn't necessarily end up in the total clearance of an area, the logging just opens up an area, the logging takes out all the valuable trees and makes it much easier.\"",
"Kebony's move into the global wood market follows more than a decade of research started in the late 1990s by Canadian scientist Marc Schneider of the University of New Brunswick.",
"Rigorous testing took place before the first trial production in 2004.",
"Strong demand for the product convinced Norwegian company to build a new plant with ten times the production capacity, which opened in January.",
"\"What Norwegian company are doing with Norwegian company's technology is to permanently transform the wood so it doesn't change.",
"Norwegian company's process is 100 percent environmentally friendly,\" Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen told CNN.",
"Our process involves injecting softwood with a patented formula which includes Furfuryl alcohol, a waste by-product of sugar cane production.",
"The wood is then subjected to pressure, heated and dried before being cured at high temperatures to create a product that Norwegian company says is stronger, more stable than untreated softwood and weather-proof.",
"Norwegian company's environmental credentials have been endorsed with the receipt of the Nordic region's eco-label, the Swan.",
"It's also received Norway's national environmental prize, the \"Glass Bear.\"",
"On a cost basis, Norwegian company says Norwegian company can compete with the price of authentic teak on the European market.",
"\"You can buy a cubic meter of teak in Europe for anything between 3,000 euros ($4,000) up to 10,000 euros ($14,000), depending on the quality.",
"I would say Norwegian company are competitive with that,\" Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen said.",
"Norwegian company is \"slightly more expensive\" when compared to pressure-treated wood, but Norwegian company doesn't contain any of the potentially harmful metals or pesticides that are commonly used to improve the wood's durability.",
"Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen sees some of Norwegian company's best opportunities in the boat-building industry, where rare teak from Myanmar is being used at the luxury end of the market.",
"\"We believe multiple boat manufacturers will start to use Norwegian company very soon -- some have already started,\" he said.",
"Norwegian company is also planning a move into the U.S. decking market where Norwegian company's scouting for clients and recruiting distributors.",
"\"The U.S. decking market, which is using toxic impregnated, metal-based wood modification methods, together with tropical wood, is [worth] about five billion dollars, so the market is obviously enormous,\" Kebony CEO Christian Jebsen said."
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"(CNN) -- What is it about Woodstock festival?",
"Jimi Hendrix closed the Woodstock festival festival on Monday morning, August 18, 1969.",
"The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was arguably more influential and, like Woodstock festival, spawned a terrific film, D.A. Pennebaker's \"Monterey Pop.\"",
"The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival in England, two weeks after Woodstock festival, included the elusive Bob Dylan.",
"And there were several other gatherings during the late-'60s and early-'70s festival frenzy, including the ill-fated Altamont festival in 1969 and the record-setting Watkins Glen festival in 1973.",
"But nobody talked about a \"Monterey Nation\" or a \"Wight Nation\" or, God forbid, an \"Altamont Nation.\"",
"No other festival prompted Charles M. Schulz to name a \"Peanuts\" character after it.",
"No other festival has maintained a viable name for four decades.",
"And no other festival is still so present in the public and media consciousness.",
"With Woodstock festival's 40th anniversary Saturday comes a plethora of releases, including CDs, DVDs, a VH1 documentary airing Friday, the new movie \"Taking Woodstock festival\" and several books.",
"Watch Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang talk about Woodstock festival » .",
"\"There's a quality to Woodstock festival that has to do with the ... hugeness of it,\" said festival co-founder Joel Rosenman.",
"\"We seem to remember that it involved the whole generation.\"",
"LIFE.com gallery: Chaos, nudity, spirit .",
"Many members of that generation, festival co-founder Joel Rosenman added, weren't aware there were so many others like Many members of that generation.",
"\"Many members of that generation had ... been reading in the establishment media Many members of that generation were a splinter here and a fragment there,\" festival co-founder Joel Rosenman said.",
"\"And all of a sudden, Many members of that generation get to Woodstock festival ... and saw the entire world as [Many members of that generation] knew it was on [Many members of that generation's] side instead of the side you thought it was on.",
"... It was pretty heady stuff.\"",
"iReport: Memories of Woodstock festival .",
"By now, the basics of Woodstock festival have passed into legend.",
"How four men -- festival co-founder Joel Rosenman, his business partner John Roberts, entrepreneur Michael Lang and record executive Artie Kornfeld -- wanted to put on a concert for the counterculture.",
"How four men -- Rosenman, his business partner John Roberts, entrepreneur Michael Lang and record executive Artie Kornfeld --'s site choices fell through.",
"How Max Yasgur rented Max Yasgur's dairy farm with a month to go.",
"How Woodstock festival drew half a million people, more than twice what had been expected.",
"How Woodstock festival caused a huge traffic jam.",
"How Woodstock festival became a free concert.",
"How it rained.",
"And how everyone -- concertgoers and security, musicians and authorities, visitors and residents -- got along and made the most of the three days with minimal violence and lots of joy.",
"Watch why Woodstock festival made a difference » .",
"As a resident of the Woodstock Nation might say, the vibes were good.",
"But that doesn't explain how Woodstock festival gave way to the myth.",
"Elliott Landy, a photographer best known for his \"Music from Big Pink\" and \"Nashville Skyline\" portraits of The Band and Bob Dylan, respectively, believes part of Woodstock festival's aura came from its isolation.",
"\"In the full Woodstock festival experience, you were cut off from the rest of ... everyday life,\" he said.",
"\"It was kind of a magic land.\"",
"Rock critic Dave Marsh, who said he was offered a ticket but didn't go, puts it succinctly: \"Woodstock festival was an accident.",
"God liked that one.\"",
"But Woodstock festival was also at the nexus of so many swirling currents of the '60s: the generation gap, the antiwar movement, the evolution of rock music, the growth of the youth culture.",
"One person in Barbara Kopple's VH1 documentary said, with still-discernable anger, \"They [the establishment] were trying to kill us,\" and One person in Barbara Kopple's VH1 documentary wasn't kidding; the draft was ever-present, with the threat of Vietnam hanging over many heads.",
"Music was just as divisive.",
"Unlike today, when underground acts quickly become mainstream through word-of-Internet, the underground in 1969 was truly underground.",
"Only the most popular rock acts appeared on prime time television, and a 1966 Harris poll reported a plurality of people over 21 disliked rock 'n' roll.",
"\"Longhair\" and \"hippie\" weren't descriptions; they were epithets.",
"Woodstock festival gave the baby boomers a rallying point.",
"If the special editions of magazines trumpeting its success weren't enough, the movie and the soundtrack album were huge hits upon the movie and the soundtrack album's 1970 release, bringing elements of the Woodstock festival experience to millions.",
"Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, whose drum solo during the band's \"Soul Sacrifice\" became an indelible Woodstock festival moment, remembers how fame caught Shrieve by surprise.",
"Shrieve was waiting in line to see \"Woodstock festival\" with other band members.",
"As the previous show let out, \"the band noticed that people were looking at the band and pointing at the band, and the band didn't know what was going on.\"",
"the band found out soon enough: On a tour of Europe, Shrieve stopped at a newsstand to pick up a magazine, and Shrieve was on the cover.",
"\"I realized this was taking off,\" Shrieve said.",
"Though much is made of the Woodstock spirit -- the camaraderie, the cooperation through the rain and the mud and the traffic -- not everybody bought into it.",
"The Who's Pete Townshend has often criticized Woodstock festival, disparaging The Who's performance and calling the audience \"a bunch of hypocrites\"; The Who's Pete Townshend later plowed The Who's Pete Townshend's Woodstock-era alienation into such songs as \"Won't Get Fooled Again.\"",
"(The Who's Pete Townshend has also acknowledged that the Woodstock festival gig was \"important.\")",
"Marsh, who wrote a recent cover story on Woodstock festival for Relix magazine, admires Woodstock festival's optimism but not many of Woodstock festival's realities: the poor sanitation, the hype, the idea that getting away from society was going to solve its problems.",
"\"the band were ambitious as people, and the band's ambition was to create a beautiful new society. ...",
"And this seemed like a step on the road to a lot of people,\" he said.",
"\"I never bought the thing that the artificial wilderness was a solution to our social problems. ...",
"I think a lot of people thought if you got stoned and bonded together with a bunch of people to whom on Monday you didn't feel bonded at all, that that was a step on the journey.\"",
"For all of the good will Woodstock festival created, Woodstock festival's also blamed for what Woodstock festival didn't do.",
"The war didn't end.",
"Altamont, the hope for a West Coast Woodstock, culminated in an audience member's slaying.",
"And members of the \"Woodstock Nation\" went members of the \"Woodstock Nation's separate ways.",
"Woodstock festival also was the beginning of a new era in the music business -- it became a \"music industry,\" Woodstock festival co-founder Lang noted.",
"Producer-engineer Eddie Kramer, a Jimi Hendrix colleague who recorded Woodstock festival, agreed the music world changed after Woodstock festival.",
"\"You have to realize that, in 1969, agents and managers were in the background,\" he said.",
"\"And the musicians weren't really competing with each other.",
"the musicians were friendly to each other and were eager to help.\"",
"As much as \"getting back to the garden,\" in Joni Mitchell's words, Woodstock festival now also symbolizes baby boomer nostalgia.",
"Among the related products and events are a 6-CD box set (Rhino); an \"Ultimate Collector's Edition\" DVD reissue of director Michael Wadleigh's Oscar-winning documentary (Warner Home Video); the new Ang Lee film \"Taking Woodstock festival\"; \"Woodstock Experience\" remastered CDs of complete live sets by such performers as Santana and Janis Joplin (Sony/Legacy); Friday's VH1 documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple; a tour by the \"Heroes of Woodstock festival\"; an anniversary concert at the Woodstock festival site in Bethel, New York; and several books, including works by Lang and Landy.",
"That's a lot to pile on to what was, at its heart, a music festival, and perhaps people have expected too much from Woodstock festival.",
"Just a year after the event, critic J.R. Young reviewed the soundtrack in Rolling Stone and gave voice to the disappointment and cynicism.",
"\"That's why there will never really be a Woodstock Nation,\" said a character in the review, which was written as a short story.",
"\"You won't let anybody live on your land.\"",
"And yet \"Woodstock\" remains a magic word -- one that, finally, refuses to reveal \"Woodstock's secrets.",
"Woodstock festival co-founder Rosenman ends up reaching for the elation of Keats' poem \"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer\" -- \"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into the skies/'s ken\" -- when trying to describe Woodstock festival's thrill.",
"But festival co-founder Joel Rosenman stops short of adding up the details.",
"It was the people, festival co-founder Joel Rosenman said, who made Woodstock festival.",
"\"That half a million-strong audience created something -- That half a million-strong audience created a legend,\" festival co-founder Joel Rosenman said.",
"\"I actually don't think it's possible to do the making of a legend and explain a legend to the satisfaction of almost anybody.",
"I think you'd still come away wondering, 'What the heck made that happen?' \"",
"And Shrieve, who's long since come to terms with being known as \"the guy who did the drum solo at Woodstock festival,\" is equally philosophical about how Woodstock festival is portrayed.",
"\"It's interesting to observe history from the viewpoint of having been there.",
"It also gives you some insight into everything else,\" he said.",
"\"I mean, any historical moment, there are people that are there and people who are not there.",
"And when it grows into something that becomes more mythological, you see people telling the story of how it happened, and you go, 'Wait a minute! That's not what happened!' \""
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"Woodstock festival represents idealism, music, money, mud, depending on who you ask .",
"Festival co-creator: It was the audience who \"created a legend\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"It is not often that football players are actively encouraged to play dirty -- unless of course football players are taking part in a unique variant of the game called \"Swamp Soccer\" when it is virtually unavoidable.",
"The competition is fierce in the 2009 Swamp Soccer World Championship held in Scotland .",
"Originating from the bogs of Finland, the game was started by cross-country skiers who used the football matches in knee-deep mud to strengthen the football matches in knee-deep mud's leg muscles.",
"The first tournament took place in 1997 with 13 teams, but now annual events take place in Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Brazil which can often feature over 200 teams.",
"What do you think of Swamp Soccer?",
"Do you prefer Beach Football of another form of the game?",
"Let us know your thoughts on the 'Sound off' box below.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller imported the concept to the United Kingdom after a chance meeting with founder Jyrki Vaananen while on a business trip to Iceland.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller launched the first UK tournament in 2005 and now teams travel from all over the globe to the Scottish village of Strachur to try and become the annual Swamp Soccer World Champions.",
"Watch the action from the bog ».",
"\"We had teams coming from as far afield as Australia and New Zealand to take part in the tournament this year so there is an international flavor to the event,\" Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller told CNN.",
"\"There is a huge appetite to try out new things and I think that's why Swamp Soccer is able to capture the imagination of people.",
"\"The basic rules of football also apply to Swamp Soccer with the exception that matches are played in thick mud with six players on an oversized five-a-side pitch.",
"\"It's probably one of the only sports in the world where the worse the conditions are the better the sporting spectacle!\"",
"There is no offside in Swamp Soccer while kick-offs, throw-ins, corner kicks, free kicks and penalties are taken by using the hands to drop the ball onto a chosen foot.",
"Teams are also allowed to make unlimited substitutions although no shoe changing is allowed for the match duration.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller believes that the oft-used quote that the state of a pitch can bridge the gap between two unevenly match teams is even more applicable with Swamp Soccer.",
"\"You could put the Brazilian national side up against an amateur team and you wouldn't know who would come out on top -- the pitch really does prove to be a leveler in this instance,\" Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller said.",
"\"Although professional footballers are precious commodities these days -- I'm not sure we'll see any stars getting caked in mud too soon, most of them are far to pampered for that.",
"\"Nobody's ever been injured seriously playing in the swamp, sometimes somebody's got a cut or two but nothing big -- so maybe when they retire from Swamp Soccer they might be prepared to give Swamp Soccer a go.\"",
"The imaginatively titled Real Mudrid, Mudchesthair United and Cowdungbeath were unable to make it past the group stages in the 44-team event which was won by FC Full Gunge from Poole in England who retained their title with a 1-0 victory over The Chocolate Men.",
"This year's Swamp Soccer tournament was held in a village in the Scottish countryside but Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller revealed that Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller intends to bring the mud game to metropolitan areas.",
"Glasgow Rangers fan Stewart Miller added: \"The future for Swamp Soccer is in the city and of course I'm certain we'll bring all the mud with us.",
"It will certainly make a great spectacle if set up a swamp in the middle of Glasgow or Edinburgh, so watch this space.\"",
"If you are interested in taking part in the 2010 Swamp Soccer World Championships visit the official Web site of the tournament."
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"(CNN) --",
"Cheryl Morse was 19 years old when Cheryl Morse hitchhiked more than 700 miles from Chicago, Illinois, to Bethel, New York.",
"Cheryl Morse was determined to make it to Woodstock.",
"An estimated 400,000 people attended the Woodstock music festival in Bethel, New York, in August 1969.",
"Although Morse, now 59, no longer recalls details such as how long it took to get there or what food, if any, Cheryl Morse ate, Cheryl Morse still vividly remembers the music.",
"When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young opened Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's set with \"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,\" Cheryl Morse said the energy in the crowd was intoxicating.",
"And Cheryl Morse can still picture folk musicians Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez performing in the rain Friday night.",
"\"It was like being totally shut off from the rest of the world for three days, with nonstop music by world-class musicians playing their hearts out ... for our party,\" Cheryl Morse said.",
"Forty years later, Woodstock remains a major cultural touchstone.",
"Held in Bethel on August 15, 16 and 17, 1969, Woodstock welcomed some of the biggest musicians of the era and legions of fans from across the United States.",
"Despite the concert's size -- an estimated 400,000 people attended Woodstock -- it seems the idea of Woodstock is bigger than the actual event was.",
"Woodstock is remembered as a peace- and love-filled celebration, an out-of-this-world experience fueled by rock 'n' roll music and copious drugs.",
"See Woodstock 40 years ago, and what the site looks like today » .",
"Like many others, it wasn't until Cheryl Morse left the festival grounds and re-entered the outside world that Cheryl Morse began to realize Woodstock's impact.",
"Cheryl Morse stopped at a local market on Cheryl Morse's way out of town and saw news coverage of Woodstock on television.",
"\"Until [then], I had not thought about the outside world at all,\" Cheryl Morse said.",
"\"That was when I slowly began to comprehend the impact the gathering was having on the country.\"",
"Woodstock, Cheryl Morse explained, \"came at a pivotal point in history,\" when the Vietnam War and subsequent anti-war movement were in full swing.",
"The festival, a massive event that was largely peaceful and free of riots, was considered exceptional for the time.",
"Years later, Cheryl Morse realized that Woodstock \"would never be forgotten,\" Cheryl Morse said.",
"\"It took you 10 years to realize you were part of history,\" said Lenny Eisenberg, who made the journey to Bethel to see Jimi Hendrix perform.",
"\"At the time, it was just another great show.\"",
"Part of the concert's lasting power was fueled by the Oscar-winning documentary \"Woodstock,\" which also led to a blurred perception of Woodstock, Eisenberg said.",
"\"I have some distorted ideas of what happened,\" Eisenberg said.",
"Still, Eisenberg recalls Hendrix's performance that famously closed Woodstock on Monday morning.",
"Eisenberg saved one of the three rolls of film Eisenberg brought with Eisenberg to document Hendrix's set.",
"The wait was worth it, Eisenberg said.",
"Eisenberg captured several shots of Hendrix, including one of Hendrix with Hendrix's middle finger in the air, seconds after Hendrix flashed a peace sign to the audience.",
"iReport.com:",
"See Eisenberg's photos .",
"\"It's really hard to pin down a best memory,\" said Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock.",
"\"The whole place was a memory.\"",
"Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock still has Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock's Woodstock tickets along with the check Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock's mother wrote for his Woodstock tickets.",
"Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock's memories from the event are fond, but fuzzy.",
"\"I remember some of the acts, but not the order or where I was when they played,\" Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock said.",
"Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock recalls seeing Richie Havens and Jefferson Airplane, and can't forget Hendrix's legendary performance of \"The Star-Spangled Banner.\"",
"\"Woodstock marked a big turning point in my life,\" said Burke, who was drafted into the Army soon after returning home from Woodstock.",
"\"It was a fitting end to the '60s.\"",
"\"It was the experience of a lifetime.",
"I've always been proud of the fact that I was there,\" said Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock.",
"Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock remembers the rain and mud, nonstop music, free-flowing drugs and conversations with strangers.",
"For Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock, nothing can recapture Woodstock.",
"\"I went to a couple other festivals after Woodstock, but a couple other festivals fell short on the overall feeling,\" Thomas Burke, who was 19 years old when he went to Woodstock said.",
"iReport.com: 'The experience of a lifetime'",
"\"Woodstock was like a big party with all your friends there, whereas the festivals afterward felt more like you were an independent entity and had no connections to anyone else.\"",
"\"I think it was the ultimate spontaneous thing.",
"It just happened,\" said John Laferlita, a photographer who attended Woodstock at 23.",
"Laferlita heard about Woodstock on the radio and thought, \"Why not?\"",
"Laferlita hopped on a bus from Manhattan, New York, on Saturday, with little more than Laferlita's camera and tickets.",
"Like many others, Laferlita slept on the ground that night.",
"\"There hasn't been anything like it,\" added Laferlita.",
"\"Everything else is planned to the minute, but this was spontaneous.",
"That's what made it so special.\""
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"Memories of the event are distorted by media coverage, movies, some say .",
"\"It took 10 years to realize you were part of history,\" said Lenny Eisenberg .",
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"Share your memories, photos ."
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"Officials in Mexico's Chiapas state postponed classes Friday for more than 1 million students in an effort to avoid a resurgence of H1N1 flu, which has sickened thousands throughout Mexico this year.",
"After the first confirmed swine flu reports in April, Mexico shut down all of Mexico's schools and many public venues.",
"Chiapas Education Secretary Javier Alvarez Ramos and state Health Secretary James Gomez Montes said classes will start August 31 for middle and high school students and September 7 for elementary pupils, the state-run Notimex news agency said.",
"About 1.55 million students will be affected, 850,000 of About 1.55 million students in elementary school, Notimex said.",
"This is not the first instance of officials in Mexico altering schedules to combat the disease.",
"The first cases of H1N1, also called swine flu, were confirmed in Mexico in April.",
"Within days, the government closed all schools and most public venues.",
"In Mexico City, officials shut down all bars, theaters and public gathering places and limited restaurants to take-out orders.",
"About 35,000 businesses were affected.",
"All non-essential federal government offices also were closed nationwide for several days.",
"The World Health Organization declared a global pandemic in early June.",
"As of August 6, the WHO reported more than 177,450 confirmed cases in 170 nations.",
"The Western Hemisphere has the most cases, with nearly 103,000 confirmed instances of the disease and almost 1,300 deaths.",
"The WHO is no longer providing a country-by-country breakdown, but the United States, Argentina and Mexico have had the most cases and fatalities.",
"In the United States, federal officials released new guidelines this month for containing the spread of the disease across the United States's school system.",
"Government officials have warned of a possible resurgence in the disease this fall.",
"Among other things, health officials urged local administrators to exercise caution and restraint when deciding whether to close a school in response to an outbreak, noting that the costs of shutting down institutions often outweigh the benefits.",
"Officials also confirmed that a new vaccine to combat the disease is likely to be ready by October.",
"The revised federal guidelines advise parents to keep children infected with the disease out of school for 24 hours after the fever has gone away.",
"Parents were previously advised to keep Parents's children out of school for seven days after the end of a fever caused by H1N1.",
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"Preakness Stakes favorite Rachel Alexandra lived up to Rachel Alexandra's billing Saturday, thundering past an all-male field of competitors and becoming the first filly to win the Triple-Crown's second jewel since 1924.",
"Saturday's victory for Rachel Alexandra, who raced from the 13th and furthest stall, was the filly's fifth straight win.",
"\"Rachel Alexandra's the greatest horse I've ever been on in my life,\" jockey Calvin Borel said after the race.",
"\"Rachel Alexandra did not handle the track 110 percent and still won.\"",
"Long-shot Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird fell short in his improbable bid to compete for horse-racing's Triple Crown, but showed his Derby victory was no fluke -- charging hard to finish second.",
"Musket Man finished third.",
"Rachel Alexandra's win was historic for multiple reasons and capped a run of five straight victories that included a blowout of the field in the all-filly Kentucky Oaks.",
"Rachel Alexandra became the first horse to win from the race's 13th stall -- the furthest from the inside of the track.",
"jockey Calvin Borel became the first jockey to ride a winner in the Kentucky Derby -- jockey Calvin Borel steered 50-1 underdog Mine That Bird to the win -- and then choose to ride another horse in the Preakness.",
"Watch why the Preakness was viewed as battle of sexes » .",
"Rachel Alexandra ran at the front of the mile-and-one-sixteenth race for almost the entire time.",
"Mike Smith, Mine That Bird's jockey on Saturday, said jockey Calvin Borel gave him advice on how to run the undersized champion on Saturday.",
"The two chatted after a finish in which less than a single horse-length separated the two.",
"\"I said if I'd had that rail trip, it might have been a different outcome,\" said Smith, who'd hoped to take Mine That Bird to the inside of the track just as jockey Calvin Borel did in the May 2 Derby.",
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"Three women who were seized along with six other foreign workers in Yemen have been killed, Yemeni government officials said Monday.",
"South Korean officials discuss the kidnappings Monday.",
"A South Korean woman reportedly was killed.",
"\"It is with profound sorrow that Yemen reports finding three bodies,\" according to a statement from Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for Yemen's Embassy in the United States.",
"a statement from Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for Yemen's Embassy in the United States said the dead were identified as a South Korean teacher and two German nurses in training, all in The women's 20s.",
"The women were found in the Noshour Valley in Safrah district in the province of Saada.",
"The women were abducted Sunday along with five other Germans, including three children, and a Briton, according to Yemen's state-run SABA news agency.",
"Earlier, the Yemen Post said seven of the nine hostages were killed, citing the country's interior ministry.",
"But SABA reported later Monday the remaining six were believed to be alive, and security forces were searching for them .",
"Albasha said the nine foreigners left the city of the province of Saada without police escorts that are required due to the \"heightened security situation\" in the area.",
"\"This event was a heinous crime and constitutes not only a violation against the peaceful principles of Islam, but also the precepts of humanity,\" the embassy spokesman said.",
"\"Moreover, This event does not reflect the good traditions and culture of Yemen.\"",
"The Germany Foreign Ministry said The Germany Foreign Ministry is in close contact with the German Embassy in Yemen but couldn't confirm any details at this stage.",
"Initial official statements said the group was apparently seized by Houthi rebels, Shiite militants who have been fighting Yemen for years, according to SABA.",
"The militants are hoping to derail the peace and reconstruction process in Saada, which has been rocked by war in the past year, according to SABA.",
"However, the news agency later reported Houthi rebels accused drug cartels of abducting the group and killing the three.",
"In addition, SABA said a spokesman for Houthi rebels accused regional tribes of being behind the kidnappings and slayings.",
"Sunday's abduction was the latest in a string of kidnappings of foreign workers in Yemen this year.",
"All the previous hostages had been released unharmed, including 24 medical workers whom armed tribesman seized last week in Yemen's Amran province.",
"CNN's Caroline Faraj, Diana Magnay and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was absent again Tuesday from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Senate impeachment trial, but state senators who will decide whether to remove Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office heard Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich loud and clear on FBI recordings of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's phone calls.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to CNN's Campbell Brown Tuesday night about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial.",
"Only four snippets of conversations were played for senators in the second day of his Senate impeachment trial, and all pertained to horse-racing legislation.",
"Prosecutors said the brief recordings focused on Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's efforts to apparently raise campaign contributions in exchange for signing a horse-racing bill.",
"In one recording from December 3, a lobbyist assures Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich that a race-track owner has pledged his \"commitment.\"",
"\"He goes, 'I hope I'm gonna have it next week, but you have his \"commitment.",
"I've always been there.",
"I'm gonna be there,' \" a lobbyist told Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of the race track owner.",
"None of the brief recordings mentions money specifically.",
"Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich continued an ambitious media blitz, appearing in interviews with CBS, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press.",
"A day earlier, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" ABC's \"Good Morning America\" and \"The View.\"",
"Watch Blagojevich on \"Larry King Live\" » .",
"\"I hate all of this,\" Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told CNN's Campbell Brown in an interview Tuesday.",
"\"This is a life-changing thing.",
"I am about to be thrown out of office for accusations that are false and not true.\"",
"Watch Brown interview Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich » .",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich added, \"But there's principles involved.",
"And that is I did nothing wrong and I'd like an opportunity to prove it.\"",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has railed against state Senate rules that restrict the calling of some witnesses and the presentation of some evidence.",
"State Sen. Matt Murphy, part of the nine-member committee that put the Senate trial rules together, has said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asked both sides to \"defer to the criminal prosecution\" of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and \"limit witnesses.\"",
"The House prosecution in the Senate trial is operating under the same restrictions, he said.",
"Senators also heard testimony Tuesday from FBI Special Agent Daniel Cain, author of a 76-page affidavit released in December, when Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges.",
"Watch proceedings from Tuesday's trial » .",
"Among other allegations, federal prosecutors said Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to trade or sell the Senate seat that would become vacant after Barack Obama became president.",
"Cain testified about transcripts of federal tapes in the affidavit, mostly replying in the affirmative when House prosecutor David Ellis asked whether the portions of the affidavit were accurate.",
"\"In the end, we were very confident that it was Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's voice in those conversations,\" Cain told House prosecutor David Ellis.",
"Cain said FBI agents repeatedly listened to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recorded conversations to make sure they were accurate.",
"\"Agents would listen to the recordings repeatedly as many times as necessary to verify the accuracy and quote,\" Cain said.",
"Later, as senators tried to ask Cain about the recordings, a representative from the U.S. attorney's office was on hand to block some answers.",
"After Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest, the state House impeached the two-term Democratic governor in two votes, with only one dissenting vote each time.",
"The second vote was needed because of the seating of a new House.",
"Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has said the House impeachment vote was politically motivated."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Defying many predictions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a commanding lead in the presidential vote count early Saturday, election officials with Iran's Interior Ministry said.",
"Men choose Men's candidates before voting Friday at a mosque in TEHRAN, Iran.",
"With 72 percent of ballot boxes counted, Ahmedinejad had 65.7 percent of the vote while Ahmedinejad's chief rival Mir Hossein Moussavi had 31.4 percent, election officials said.",
"Moussavi, widely regarded as a reformist, had been expected to do well as Moussavi's campaign caught fire in recent days, triggering massive street rallies in TEHRAN.",
"An \"unprecedented\" voter turnout at the polls Friday was also expected to boost Moussavi's chances of winning the presidency.",
"Iran's Interior Minister Seyed Sadeq Mahsouli said 70 percent of 46 million eligible voters had gone to the polls Friday, according to Fars, another semi-official news agency.",
"Both candidates claimed victory.",
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"Watch why each side is claiming victory » .",
"Voting was supposed to end after 10 hours, but because of the massive turnout, officials initially said polling stations would remain open until everyone in line had a chance to vote.",
"However, Moussavi alleged that doors were being closed with people still waiting outside.",
"Some private news agencies reported many Iranians were milling about on the streets late into the night.",
"Mehr reported that the chief of police declared public gatherings of candidate supporters illegal.",
"Earlier in the day, voters crowded the steps of one polling place in Tehran, some waiting more than three hours underneath the hot sun to cast their ballots.",
"Some were lining up even before the polls opened at 8 a.m.",
"Moussavi is the main challenger among three candidates vying to replace Ahmedinejad.",
"The other candidates are former parliament speaker and reformist Mehdi Karrubi, and Mohsen Rezaie, the former head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.",
"Mehr reported Rezaie had 1.72 percent of the vote and Karrubi had 0.87 percent.",
"If no single candidate reaches a simple majority -- 50 percent plus one vote -- a runoff election will be held on Friday, June 19.",
"It was unclear where the ballots that had been counted so far had been cast.",
"Ahmedinejad still has staunch support in Iran's rural areas, but has been blamed for much of Iran's economic turmoil over the last four years.",
"If Ahmedinejad loses, it would be the first time a sitting Iranian president has not won re-election to a second term in office.",
"Fawaz Gerges, an academic and author who studies the region, said Friday's vote is really \"a referendum on Ahmedinejad,\" who has been in office since 2005.",
"\"The unemployment rate is 30 percent ... the largest in the third world, inflation is [in the] double digits in Iran,\" Gerges told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"We focus in the United States a great deal on his inflammatory rhetoric on the Holocaust, on nuclear weapons.",
"We tend to forget that Ahmedinejad has basically done a great deal of damage to the Iranian economy, on social policy.\"",
"While Moussavi's campaign has energized key segments of Iranian voters -- particularly women -- Gerges noted that \"Iranians have surprised us many times.\"",
"Moussavi's supporters crowded the streets of Tehran this week, wearing the candidate's trademark color green.",
"Moussavi's campaign has also energized Iran's youth, many of whom did not take part in the 2005 election.",
"Yasmin, a 21-year-old university student, said Yasmin, a 21-year-old university student cast Yasmin, a 21-year-old university student's ballot on Friday for Moussavi.",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports emotions on the street » .",
"\"I've never even been interested in the politics of my country until today.",
"It was my first time voting, and I am so excited about it,\" Yasmin, a 21-year-old university student said.",
"\"We are all yearning for change, and I believe Moussavi will bring much more freedom to Iran and our lives.",
"That is why I cast Yasmin, a 21-year-old university student's ballot for Moussavi.",
"There is so much anticipation in the air.\"",
"Moussavi's supporters hope that Moussavi follows in the same footsteps as Mohammed Khatami, a reformist candidate who overwhelmingly won the presidency in 1997, raising hopes that the reformist movement would bring religious and democratic freedoms to the Islamic republic.",
"But the real power in Iran rests in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
"By the time Khatami left office in 2005, Khatami was unable to make major changes because of the opposition of hard-line elements in Iran's clerical establishment.",
"\"Ahmedinejad is not the commander in chief, Ahmedinejad does not make decisions of war and peace,\" Gerges noted.",
"\"The major decision maker [in Iran] is the unelected supreme leader, that is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a National Security Council.\"",
"But Gerges noted that the \"the style of Ahmedinejad\" and his \"posture\" have a great deal of influence on Iran's relations with other countries, particularly the United States.",
"Watch CNN review the unprecedented online presence of candidates » .",
"No matter who wins Friday's vote, analysts say it is unlikely any of the candidates would change Iran's position on Iran's nuclear program, which the Islamic republic insists is for civilian purposes but the United States and other Western powers believe may be a cover for a weapons program.",
"Iranian-American analyst and scholar Reza Aslan said that while Moussavi is \"a little bit more of a moderate when it comes to the nuclear issue ... all four candidates agreement with Iran's right to develop nuclear.\"",
"Nevertheless, scholar Reza Aslan said that all four candidates also \"recognize it's time to open up to the United States and to the international community because there's no other option with regard to the economy.\"",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Samson Desta and Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report."
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"When powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis wanted to create a winning formula for powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis's athletes, powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis didn't head to the weight room.",
"Instead, powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis found powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis in the classroom.",
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"powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis's responsibilities run the gamut from identifying up-and-coming talent to developing training programs.",
"powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis had friends who were corporate performance directors, and realizing the skills friends who were corporate performance directors had were applicable to powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis's own line of work, powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis decided to pursue a professional development course designed for coaches.",
"\"We expect athletes to be the best athletes can be.",
"Our responsibility as coaches is to be the best we can be,\" powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis told CNN.",
"In pursuit of becoming better managers and leaders, players in the business world have long turned to executive education programs.",
"Elite coaches are taking a cue from business and turning to tailored programs too.",
"In the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the desire to develop high caliber coaches is ramping up in the UK, said John Neal of Ashridge Business School, where powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis took the coaching course.",
"\"A lot of coach development work [in the UK] is ad hoc.",
"It's becoming more clearly defined, but the business school's vision is to establish a more development pathway for coaches,\" he told CNN.",
"powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis trains about 20 powerlifters as part of a program that was established to prepare athletes in Great Britain for major competitive events like the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.",
"Nutritionists, psychologists, fitness coaches and sports scientists are all focused on a goal of helping athletes achieve a performance edge, powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis says.",
"But coaches also need to make sure coaches make the best decisions for coaches's athletes.",
"That requires a broad range of skills, from understanding the athlete experience and identifying particular challenges they may encounter as well as having a firm understanding of where funding comes from and making sure it's spent wisely .",
"\"the business school prepare the business school's athletes to be the best in the world.",
"But the business school also have to make sure that the business school are making the best choices for them,\" powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis said.",
"Ashridge, which specializes in customized education programs, has been running sport coaching courses since 2001.",
"Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program is endorsed by the British Olympic Association.",
"The course is made up of 10 one-day master classes that are spread out over a period of about 10 months.",
"In a typical meeting, coaches are given scenarios, break up into groups for discussion and then present coaches's responses to the class.",
"Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program is flexible so coaches can focus on the skills coaches want to improve.",
"A wide range of topics are covered, from communication, negotiation and team building skills to body language, motivation and development of young players.",
"Neal estimates that about 160 coaches have completed Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program since Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program was launched.",
"Most participants are UK-based, but coaches come from around the world and represent a long list of sports that includes diving, swimming, rugby, hockey, shooting and cricket.",
"Coaches have few opportunities to share Coaches's knowledge.",
"According to Neal, that's one reason why Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program has been popular.",
"One measure of Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program's success: Many coaches, like powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis, participate more than once.",
"Due to a lack of funding, however, coaches oftentimes end up paying for Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program themselves.",
"Ashridge heavily subsidizes Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program and charges £2,000, just about a quarter of what it actually costs to run it.",
"But in return, the business school gets a unique perspective on decision making that is fed back into the business school's executive education programs, Neal said.",
"Elite coaches have a lot to offer companies, especially in the current economic downturn, Neal said.",
"More businesses are under pressure to maximize efficiency, and many want to learn from the sport experience, since coaches are required to achieve results quickly.",
"With 2012 less than three years away, powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis is planning to return to Ashridge for a refresher.",
"powerlifting coach Nicola Vaughan-Ellis says one of the advantages of Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program is that Its core World Class Sport Coach Development program helps coaches deal with pressure by teaching coaches how to cope with and embrace change.",
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"An endangered blue whale surfaces off the coast of Southern California in July.",
"At issue in the 5-4 ruling was whether Navy's need to conduct exercises to protect the country from enemy submarines outweighed concerns raised by environmental groups.",
"The case focused on whether the president had the power to issue executive waivers allowing such tests and whether federal judges can issue preliminary injunctions blocking them.",
"Supreme Court ultimately sided with claims of national security over environmental concerns.",
"Those environmental interests, said Chief Justice John Roberts for the majority, \"are plainly outweighed by Navy's need to conduct realistic training exercises to ensure that it is able to neutralize the threat posed by enemy submarines.\"",
"Chief Justice John Roberts said a lower federal court \"abused a lower federal court's discretion\" by imposing a 2,200-yard perimeter for testing and ordering a shutdown of sonar use during surfacing exercises.",
"But in dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that the ecological damage was significant.",
"\"This likely harm cannot be lightly dismissed,\" Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, \"even in the face of an alleged risk to the effectiveness of Navy's 14 training exercises.\"",
"Justices David Souter, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens also questioned Navy's arguments.",
"the Navy's 14 training exercises have continued while the case was under appeal.",
"Environmentalists had sued the Pentagon over the practice, and a federal judge ordered major changes to Navy's annual offshore training exercises in March.",
"President Bush had issued an emergency waiver to allow the Navy's 14 training exercises to go on without the filing of an environmental impact study, but the lower court ruling blocked the use of sonar.",
"a federal judge, in ruling against the government last March, said it was \"constitutionally suspect\" for President Bush to issue the national security exemption to allow skipping the impact study.",
"Military officials argued that the restrictions could hamper readiness in time of war, because new sonar technology is needed to detect increasingly sophisticated enemy submarines.",
"\"the case was vital to Navy's Navy and nation's security, and Navy are pleased with the Supreme Court's decision in this matter,\" Navy Secretary Donald Winter said.",
"\"Navy can now continue to train Navy's sailors effectively, under realistic combat conditions.\"",
"One of the environmental organizations that sued the Defense Department told the justices that the Navy's 14 training exercises had been planned in advance and that Navy was required under law to conduct more extensive environmental tests than Navy had.",
"The waters of southern California are home to dozens of species of whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions, nine of dozens of species of whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions federally listed as endangered or threatened.",
"Federal courts have cited scientific studies and Navy's own conclusions that high levels of sonar can cause hearing loss and disorientation in the animals.",
"In February, Navy demonstrated for CNN Navy's onboard procedures for turning down mid-frequency sonar when whales come within 1,000 meters and shutting it off completely when whales approach 200 meters.",
"mid-frequency sonar sounds like a \"ping, ping\" noise, and mid-frequency sonar can be reduced as necessary, officers said.",
"But environmentalists say that mid-frequency sonar can hurt whales much farther than 1,000 meters away and that the noise created by mid-frequency sonar \"was like having a jet engine in Supreme Court multiplied 2,000 times, compensating for water,\" attorney Richard Kendall told the justices.",
"Reacting to the ruling, attorney Richard Kendall said, \"It is gratifying that Supreme Court did not accept Navy's expansive claims of executive power and that two-thirds of the injunction remain in place.\"",
"In 2000, 16 whales beached 16 whales in the Bahamas, and Navy concluded that too many sonar ships had been operating in a narrow underwater channel.",
"Navy says Navy is funding $16 million in independent research to minimize sonar's effect on marine mammals."
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"Britain's Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a new medal Wednesday to honor the families of British service personnel killed while serving British service personnel's country.",
"The Elizabeth Cross may be given to family members of service personnel who have died since 1948.",
"The Elizabeth Cross will be given to the next of kin of armed forces personnel killed on operations or as a result of terrorism \"as a mark of national recognition for their loss,\" the Defense Ministry said.",
"It is the first time the name of a reigning monarch has been given to a new award since the queen's father, King George VI, instituted the George Cross in 1940.",
"That medal recognizes acts of bravery of both civilians and military personnel.",
"The most prestigious medal, the Victoria Cross, was introduced by Queen Victoria in 1856 for acts of gallantry by the armed forces.",
"\"This seems to me a right and proper way of showing our enduring debt to those who are killed while actively protecting what is most dear to us all,\" Queen Victoria said in a message to the armed forces.",
"\"The solemn dignity which we attach to the names of those who have fallen is deeply ingrained in our national character.",
"As a people, we accord this ultimate sacrifice the highest honor and respect.\"",
"The Elizabeth Cross is a sterling silver emblem in the shape of a cross over a wreath.",
"In the center is Queen Victoria's monogram, EIIR, which stands for Elizabeth II Regina, or Queen Elizabeth II.",
"At each of the four tips of The Elizabeth Cross are floral symbols: a rose for England, a thistle for Scotland, a shamrock for Northern Ireland, and a daffodil for Wales.",
"The reverse of The Elizabeth Cross will be engraved with the name of the person who died.",
"the name of the person who died will also be written on a scroll signed by Queen Victoria, to be given to family members along with The Elizabeth Cross, the Defense Ministry said.",
"The award may be given to family members of all service personnel who have died since 1948.",
"Charles Mosely, the former editor in chief of Debrett's, an authority on etiquette, said The Elizabeth Cross is a good way to recognize the sacrifice made by members of the military and their families.",
"\"It seems very praiseworthy and very overdue,\" Charles Mosely, the former editor in chief of Debrett's, an authority on etiquette said.",
"It makes sense for The Elizabeth Cross to be named after the reigning monarch, Charles Mosely, the former editor in chief of Debrett's, an authority on etiquette said, because she is head of the armed forces.",
"\"They have personal allegiance to the sovereign, a personal loyalty,\" Charles Mosely, the former editor in chief of Debrett's, an authority on etiquette said."
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"Achtung, baby!",
"Bruno stars as a flamboyant Austrian fashionista in \"Bruno.\"",
"There's a British theory that everything sounds funnier delivered with a Teutonic accent.",
"That's tested to the limit in Bruno's newest provocation, \"Bruno,\" but it's not what comes out of Bruno's mouth that makes the Austrian fashionista such a handful.",
"Bruno knows that in our visually overstimulated culture, a picture is vorth a thousand vords.",
"More if there's significant skin involved -- and Bruno's happy to show us Bruno's wurst.",
"Bruno seems to believe that prudery is the enemy.",
"Certainly, bad taste is Bruno's Trojan horse.",
"An early montage of romantic coupling, Bruno-style, is enough to get tongues wagging -- or clucking in disapproval.",
"It's the closest thing to gay porn most heterosexuals will see this side of \"300.\"",
"Either way, Bruno's laughing: Properly managed, outrage is a useful marketing tool, as \"Borat\" showed.",
"Apparently permanently airbrushed right down to Bruno's backside, Bruno looks nothing like Bruno's hirsute Kazakh cousin, but the men share an ego;",
"the men're equally insensitive to other people and oblivious to notions of social decorum and the politically correct.",
"And they both invest heavily in the American Dream.",
"Bruno hungers after fame as hungrily as Borat lusted for Pamela Anderson.",
"After a brief prologue in Europe -- and the distressing revelation of the vacuity of the fashion scene -- Bruno sets out for Los Angeles, determined to become Austria's \"biggest superstar since Hitler.\"",
"Perhaps inspired by another Bruno creation, Ali G, Bruno sets out to make a celebrity interview show -- but sadly, the only dupes ignorant enough to participate are \"American Idol\" judges (Paula Abdul chats about her philanthropic pursuits while perched on the back of an immigrant laborer) and presidential candidates (take a bow, Ron Paul).",
"It's not just about the scarcity of the guests, though.",
"Bruno doesn't draw them out the way Borat did.",
"Quite the opposite: Mostly they're wary and guarded, or downright hostile -- and understandably so, often enough, given Bruno's shock tactics.",
"Yes, it's funny seeing Bruno fire up a predominantly African-American TV studio audience by announcing that Bruno's \"adopted\" black baby is named O.J., but still, the scene tells us more about Bruno's need to provoke than about the crowd's supposed homophobia.",
"The same goes for Bruno's brief stint in a U.S. Army training facility.",
"The actor's quick wit and virtuoso physical comedy skills carry the day, but just as Bruno is forced to abandon one dead-end celebrity scheme after another, the movie too seems to be casting about haphazardly for some real comic traction.",
"Evidently it's not easy testing taboos in 2009.",
"Wherever Bruno turns, Bruno seems to be following in someone else's footsteps.",
"Peace talks in Israel (what Bruno calls \"Middle Earth\")?",
"Morgan Spurlock has been there, done that.",
"Camping out with the gun lobby?",
"Michael Moore, \"Bowling for Columbine.\"",
"Gay conversion?",
"Didn't director Larry Charles go there with Bill Maher just last year in \"Religulous\"?",
"Meanwhile, Bruno's love-hate relationship with his assistant, Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten), only highlights how similar the new film's few narrative pegs are to \"Borat.\"",
"Some sketches do hit much closer to home.",
"A series of interviews with stage moms and dads who eagerly sign up their infants to work with hornets, wasps, dead or dying animals, antiquated heavy machinery and sundry toxic substances is a real jaw-dropper, though the kicker is tempered by Bruno's behavior.",
"And, to its credit, the new film saves the best for last.",
"In a show-stopping climax (which I don't propose to spoil here) Cohen puts it all on the line and definitively nails gay-bashers where it hurts: right between the eyes.",
"iReport.com: \"Bruno\" vs. Borat\": Preview audience weighs in .",
"It's an elaborate -- and brave -- stunt by which Bruno ultimately achieves the fame Bruno craves.",
"And it does more than enough to validate the new film's fast and loose play with stereotypes and questionable undercover tactics.",
"\"Bruno\" has the new film's problems, but the finale makes the new film a winner.",
"\"Bruno\" is rated R and runs 83 minutes.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's review, click here."
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"Film attempts to show homophobia but in some cases pushes too hard .",
"Still, last scene makes it worth it, says reviewer Tom Charity ."
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"The killer of Rob Knox has been given four life sentences and told Karl Bishop will be behind bars for at least 20 years.",
"The parents of Rob Knox read a statement outside the Old Bailey after Karl Bishop was found guilty of Rob Knox's murder.",
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"Rob Knox, 18, had rushed out of the bar after he heard that Karl Bishop had threatened Rob Knox's younger brother Jamie but Rob Knox ended up being stabbed five times, once in a main artery.",
"Rob Knox died in hospital later that night.",
"The judge, Mr Justice Bean, told Karl Bishop: \"You are at present a highly dangerous man,\" the Press Association reported.",
"\"There is plainly a very significant risk to the public of serious harm caused by your committing further offences of violence.",
"\"Because you had threatened his younger brother, Rob Knox was among those who tried to disarm you.",
"Rob Knox paid for Rob Knox's bravery with Rob Knox's life.",
"\"The truth is that you simply could not care less whether you killed Rob Knox or not.",
"When you learned that you had killed Rob Knox your only response was to say 'Yeah, sweet.'\"",
"Days before the attack, Rob Knox had finished filming on \"Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince,\" due for international release in July, in which Rob Knox played the role of Marcus Belby.",
"Rob Knox was set to reprise the part in future \"Harry Potter\" films.",
"Knox's father Colin told mourners at Rob Knox's funeral, including co-star Rupert Grint, that Knox's father Colin's son had been \"living the dream,\" PA said.",
"The Knox family left the court without commenting, but earlier Rob Knox's mother Sally said of Karl Bishop: \"Once Karl Bishop's got Karl Bishop's sentence and Karl Bishop's gone, I will not waste my time thinking about Karl Bishop.",
"\"I just think maybe somebody like Karl Bishop may have some kind of disturbed mind, which may not be due to the life Karl Bishop's had, it just may be something in Karl Bishop.\" Knife crime in Britain is a political hot topic due to a spate of recent killings of mainly young people in major cities.",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged tougher sentences for those caught carrying knives.",
"UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Daily Telegraph last month: \"By carrying a knife you are not only endangering the lives of others, but you are more likely to be killed, or end up in jail.",
"\"We need to change the way young people think about knives, we need families and communities working together ... to get this message across and help stamp out knife crime and get weapons off our streets.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"Les Paul never stopped tinkering, said Henry Juszkiewicz.",
"Les Paul was constantly making recommendations on how to improve guitars, says the CEO of Gibson.",
"Juszkiewicz, the chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitars, remembers getting calls from Henry Juszkiewicz's company's partner (and famed client), offering recommendations on how to change or market Les Paul's eponymous Gibson guitars.",
"Sometimes, Henry Juszkiewicz recalls, the two would go out for Chinese food.",
"Les Paul was very particular, desiring a dish called Chicken Subgum.",
"The two would have to search Chinatown for a restaurant that knew how to cook it, Henry Juszkiewicz says with a chuckle.",
"Les Paul died Thursday of pneumonia.",
"Les Paul was 94.",
"Henry Juszkiewicz talked about Henry Juszkiewicz's friend and colleague Thursday afternoon.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"Watch how Les Paul helped invent modern music » .",
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"Tell me about working with Les Paul.",
"Henry Juszkiewicz:",
"I've been with Gibson about 25 years and known Les Paul pretty much through that entire period. ...",
"Les Paul was a very kind person.",
"Les Paul was a visionary.",
"In the early days, Gibson was doing very poorly as a company, and I got involved essentially to turn the company around. ...",
"We had many, many conversations about the guitar business and what to do. ...",
"A lot of the things we talked about and implemented were very successful.",
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"Gallery: Guitarists pay tribute to Les Paul » .",
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"When it first came out, Les Pauls was extremely controversial, and Les Pauls was not really successful.",
"It took years for Gibson to actually come to terms with Les Paul.",
"Les Paul had been pitching the head of what was Gibson's parent company, CMI, for three or four years until Gibson finally decided to give it a try -- and only then when Les Paul became very famous and a television personality.",
"And Gibson were right, actually, because a solid-body guitar was considered silly. ...",
"It really wasn't until 1965, '66 that the guitar took off and became popular.",
"In fact, in the early '60s, the guitar was discontinued for several years.",
"One of the [prized] Les Pauls was the 1959 Les Paul -- that's sort of the holy grail of Les Pauls -- and one of the reasons is there were only 300 units made in 1959.",
"And 300 units was not really that successful for Gibson; it was a powerhouse guitar builder in 1959.",
"So Les Paul was always ahead of Les Paul's time.",
"Les Paul was someone who could see what was going to happen 50 years in advance, and very often, Les Paul was able to bring Les Paul's vision to reality and share his vision with the entire musical community. ...",
"The [Les Paul] guitar shines in modern music.",
"... In the '50s and before the '50s, the [standard] guitar was amplified, but it was just louder.",
"In other words, it still sounded just like an acoustic guitar, but you could turn it up.",
"What Les Paul did was turn it into a whole new instrument.",
"When Les Paul was playing ... you will hear this rich context that's kind of normal today. ...",
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"Les Paul being Les Paul, I assumed Les Paul continue to play with things over the years.",
"Juszkiewicz:",
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"It's really hard to answer your original question, what makes it [distinctive]. ...",
"As a guitar player, when I pick it up, I know it's a Les Paul.",
"I can feel the sustain.",
"It's got a certain feeling.",
"... There's a lot of things in it.",
"But it's the package that's kind of magic.",
"In the modern world, working with modern equipment, it's incomparable.",
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"Juszkiewicz:",
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"Many, many thousands.",
"I'll share with you: We had a big debate when we first got involved in the business.",
"When I was a young guitar player, Les Pauls were always very expensive ... and Les Pauls're very expensive today.",
"[Les Paul] said, \"You know, Henry, you really have to make a less expensive Les Paul.\" ...",
"We argued about it for a year and a half, and finally I gave in.",
"I said, \"OK, Les Paul, it's your guitar.\" ...",
"And it was an instant success.",
"And all of a sudden, people that couldn't touch that magic got a shot at that magic, and Les Paul was pleased as punch, and we were as well.",
"Les Paul was a renaissance man. ...",
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"And what a wonderful, warm gentleman."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"British lawmakers demanded answers Thursday after a newspaper reported that a UK tabloid illegally hacked the phones of thousands of public figures including Gwyneth Paltrow, George Michael and Elle MacPherson.",
"Britain's News of the World tabloid is at the center of the phone-hacking allegations.",
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"However police said police would not conduct a new investigation into the claims by a newspaper.",
"Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates said officers had seen no additional evidence since Metropolitan Police's last investigation.",
"Earlier Thursday a newspaper reported the cell phones of \"several thousand public figures\" were hacked into by reporters and staff of the News of the World tabloid during one month in 2006.",
"The public figures named by a newspaper as victims of the phone hackings include lawmaker John Prescott, who was then the deputy prime minister; Tessa Jowell, who was the secretary of state for culture, responsible for the media; and London Mayor Boris Johnson, who at the time was the Conservative Party spokesman on higher education.",
"a newspaper said actress Gwyneth Paltrow, model Elle MacPherson, actor Jude Law, singer George Michael, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, celebrity PR agent Max Clifford, and actors union Equity were also victims of the hacking.",
"\"The allegations -- the enormity of it -- is just unbelievable,\" Prescott told the BBC on Thursday morning.",
"\"I think it is outrageous,\" former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who was not named among the alleged victims, told the BBC.",
"\"I think we do need action immediately.\"",
"Thursday's revelations in a newspaper come from a case last year in which Gordon Taylor, the head of the Professional Footballers' Association, was suing the News of the World for illegally intercepting messages on his cell phone.",
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"The case file was sealed, but a newspaper said a newspaper obtained the suppressed evidence.",
"the suppressed evidence, a newspaper said, shows that journalists working for the News of the World paid private investigators to illegally hack the cell phones of several thousand public figures.",
"The staff then paid for the information private investigators obtained, a newspaper said.",
"News International, the parent company of the News of the World defended the News of the World's journalists and said the News of the World would not \"shirk from vigorously defending our right and proper role to expose wrongdoing.\"",
"In a statement the News of the World, said the News of the World was prevented by \"confidentiality obligations from discussing certain allegations made in a newspaper today.\"",
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"Prescott demanded to know why -- if those allegations are true -- Prescott wasn't told that Prescott's phone had been allegedly been hacked.",
"\"I am writing to the chief of police to ask the chief of police and the Met authorities, did you know that many of our phones were being tapped?",
"Did you tell the public prosecutor?",
"Did the public prosecutor then say 'no further action'?\" Prescott told the BBC.",
"\"I can't believe that such legal authorities -- on such serious charges, if these allegations are right -- did nothing, and I want to know from them.\"",
"A spokeswoman for Jude Law said the actor was not commenting on a newspaper's report.",
"Other celebrities contacted by CNN had no immediate comment.",
"A spokesman for Equity said the union was writing to the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to ask for evidence accompanying the claims.",
"a newspaper reported that Equity was targeted as a way to get actors' addresses.",
"\"Equity have no evidence to support the claims in today's a newspaper story that Equity was conned into giving out information and Equity have received no complaints from any of Equity's members that the details Equity hold on Equity's behalf have been improperly accessed,\" Equity's letter states.",
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"LOS ANGELES, the state (CNN) --",
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"Drop in humidity, high temperatures could hamper efforts to contain the Lockheed Fire in Santa Cruz County.",
"\"It really goes to show you that it doesn't take much with these dry conditions to start a fire,\" CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant told CNN Sunday.",
"The fire sparked by a bird hitting a power line ignited a series of blazes in Yuba County, forcing some 1,300 firefighters to the scene and officials to declare evacuations in the town of Dobbins, Daniel Berlant said.",
"Authorities have battled The fire sparked by a bird hitting a power line since Friday and expect containment by Thursday.",
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"The fire originated at an illegal marijuana camp believed to be run by a Mexican drug organization, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit said in a news release Saturday night.",
"\"I haven't heard of any other fire starting that way,\" said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Carol Underhill, referring to The fire.",
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"Some homes around the Los Padres National Forest have been evacuated.",
"Narcotics investigators have secured the area after working for the past month to eradicate marijuana operations in the remote and steep terrain, a news release said.",
"\"It is also believed that the suspects are still within the San Rafael wilderness trying to leave the area on foot,\" officials said.",
"Twenty firefighters sustained minor injuries while trying to contain a complex of smaller fires in Northern California's Shasta County that have burned nearly at least 17,623 acres, authorities said.",
"Watch fire in Santa Cruz Mountains » .",
"CalFire spokesman Brent Saulsbury said 37 of the 40 fires -- known as the Shasta Lightning Complex -- are under control.",
"the area is dense with timber, giving the 40 fires -- known as the Shasta Lightning Complex -- serious fuel.",
"Rugged terrain, limited access to fire trucks and the length of time it takes to reach wildfires have hindered firefighters in recent days, CalFire spokesman Brent Saulsbury said.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Former Australian batsman John Dyson has been dismissed from Former Australian batsman John Dyson's job with immediate effect.",
"Former Australian batsman John Dyson had been in charge of the West Indies cricket side since 2007.",
"The West Indies Cricket Board said The West Indies Cricket Board were terminating the contract of the Australian, according to a statement on The West Indies Cricket Board's Web site.",
"The decision comes after recent Test and one-day series losses to Bangladesh, although in both defeats the West Indies were forced to put out weakened sides because of a dispute between players and The West Indies Cricket Board over contracts.",
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"Earlier in Former Australian batsman John Dyson's career Former Australian batsman John Dyson was appointed Sri Lanka coach in 2003 despite having only limited coaching experience at higher levels.",
"The 55-year-old was due to lead the West Indies into next month's International Cricket Council Champions Trophy.",
"The WICB offered no reason for Dyson's sacking but in a statement on their Web site confirmed that the assistant coach David Williams would take over as coach on a temporary basis for the upcoming tournament, which gets started in South Africa on September 22.",
"The contract dispute means the West Indies will be forced to take a second-string side to South Africa.",
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"A 20-year-old Wisconsin man accused of attacking the mayor of Mayor Tom Barrett with a metal pipe has been arrested, police said Sunday.",
"Mayor Tom Barrett Mayor Tom Barrett, seen in a file photo, was attacked Saturday night, police say.",
"Mayor Tom Barrett was in stable condition Sunday at a Milwaukee-area hospital after Mayor Tom Barrett was attacked the night before at the Wisconsin State Fair in nearby West Allis, police said.",
"Mayor Tom Barrett was leaving the event with Mayor Tom Barrett's family when Mayor Tom Barrett heard a woman crying for help, police said.",
"When Mayor Tom Barrett began calling 911, the man who had been attacking a woman charged at Mayor Tom Barrett and began battering Mayor Tom Barrett with a metal pipe, police said.",
"\"Mayor Tom Barrett not only risked serious injury but endured serious injury in order to defend somebody who was weaker than their assailant,\" Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told CNN Radio.",
"Police arrested Anthony Peters in connection with the attack.",
"Watch Mayor Tom Barrett's brother talk about what happened » .",
"West Allis Police Chief Michael Jungbluth said the attack on a woman stemmed from a domestic situation, when an intoxicated Peters wanted to see an intoxicated Peters's 1-year-old daughter, and had threatened to shoot an intoxicated Peters and others.",
"CNN's Chuck Johnston and CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman and Ninette Sosa contributed to this report."
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"Police: Man beat Mayor Tom Barrett with metal pipe at state fair on Saturday .",
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"Man who had been beating a woman then started hitting Mayor Tom Barrett, police say ."
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"They poured in to LOS ANGELES from places far-flung, an army of Michael Jackson fans hoping to collectively mourn their idol in a massive ceremony at the Staples Center downtown Tuesday.",
"A fan leaves a note on a Michael Jackson memorial outside the Staples Center in LOS ANGELES.",
"The singer's memorial service Tuesday will be a star-studded affair, with singers Mariah Carey, Usher and Stevie Wonder among the participants, according to an announcement released on behalf of the Jackson family.",
"Also participating in the event will be basketball stars Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, and singers Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Smokey Robinson, the Jackson family said.",
"The Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III will be among others taking part.",
"Ken Ehrlich, known for producing the Grammy Awards, is producing the memorial show, his company said.",
"Kenny Ortega, who was to have co-directed Michael Jackson's series of concerts in London, England, this summer, will direct it.",
"John Mayer posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon saying \"I'm going not to 'perform' but to contribute.\"",
"\"I'm honored to have been asked to play at MJ's memorial service.",
"I will be representing all of us who can't be there,\" John Mayer tweeted.",
"\"Going to say goodbye from all us kids.\"",
"One notable who won't be attending: longtime Michael Jackson friend Elizabeth Taylor, who put out a message on Twitter that she \"cannot be part of the public whoopla.\"",
"\"I just don't believe that Michael Jackson would want me to share my grief with millions of others,\" Taylor tweeted.",
"\"How I feel is between us.",
"Not a public event.\"",
"\"I love Michael Jackson too much,\" Taylor added, \"and I cannot guarantee that I would be coherent to say a word.\"",
"Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's former wife and the mother of Michael Jackson's two oldest children, will not attend MJ's memorial service, her lawyer Marta Almli said Monday.",
"\"Although Debbie had originally planned to attend tomorrow's Staples Center memorial service, we have concluded with Debbie that Debbie will not be attending,\" a statement from Almli said.",
"\"The onslaught of media attention has made it clear Debbie's attendance would be an unnecessary distraction to an event that should focus exclusively on Michael Jackson's legacy.",
"Debbie will continue to celebrate Michael's memory privately.\"",
"Fans without tickets to the memorial are being asked to stay away from downtown Los Angeles and watch MJ's memorial service on television.",
"Details: See who will be there, map of area » .",
"The family decided to provide a free live video feed to networks so it would be televised everywhere.",
"\"Everything about the memorial has to do with accommodating as many fans as possible,\" Ken Sunshine, the Jackson family spokesman, said.",
"While Michael Jackson's family remains tight-lipped about the singer's burial arrangements, sources told CNN that relatives will hold a private gathering at the Forest Lawn cemetery in LOS ANGELES Tuesday morning ahead of MJ's memorial service.",
"The California Highway Patrol will escort their motorcade, sources said.",
"a private gathering is scheduled for 8 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) -- two hours before MJ's memorial service.",
"Cemetery officials have not commented on the matter.",
"While there are five Forest Lawn cemeteries in the LOS ANGELES area, media trucks and crews have been parked at the gate of the Hollywood Hills facility for several days in anticipation of Michael Jackson's possible interment there.",
"Fans claim tickets .",
"On Monday, fans chosen by random lottery for Michael Jackson's memorial began arriving at Dodger Stadium in LOS ANGELES to pick up fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson's memorial's tickets.",
"Full story .",
"Los Angeles Police Capt. Bill Murphy said the distribution process was going smoothly.",
"One person tried to pass off a photocopied voucher; One person was ejected, Murphy said.",
"fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson's memorial have until 6 p.m. PT to claim fans chosen by random lottery for Jackson's memorial's tickets.",
"iReport.com: \"Surreal journey\" to get Michael Jackson tickets .",
"Each winner gets two tickets, bringing the number awarded in the lottery to 17,500.",
"Just 11,000 of those are for seats inside the Staples Center.",
"The other 6,500 would be for viewing the memorial telecast at the adjacent Nokia Theater.",
"AEG Live, the promoter of Michael Jackson's London shows, owns and operates both venues.",
"Deka Motanya, 27, who works in a doctor's office in San Francisco, scrambled Sunday night to line up plane tickets so she and her boyfriend could fly to LOS ANGELES on Monday.",
"\"Oh, yeah, I'm going,\" she said.",
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"-mailing my boss saying I've got to leave early because I'm going to L.A.\"",
"Executors control Michael Jackson's assets .",
"A LOS ANGELES Superior Court judge granted control of Michael Jackson's assets to the executors of his will Monday.",
"The executors -- John Branca, Michael Jackson's longtime personal attorney, and John McClain, a music industry executive and longtime friend -- had sought immediate control of Jackson's assets at a hearing before A Los Angeles Superior Court judge.",
"A Los Angeles Superior Court judge appointed the executors of his will as special administrators until another hearing August 3.",
"A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said the executors of his will will be responsible for protecting Jackson's assets from immediate losses.",
"the executors of his will can enter into new ventures only with court approval, A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said.",
"Michael Jackson died June 25.",
"Since the next day, Jackson's mother, Katherine, has been administering Jackson's assets.",
"Lawyers for Michael Jackson's mother objected to A Los Angeles Superior Court judge's decision, saying that \"irreparable damage\" could be done to Jackson's assets if Jackson is allowed to take control.",
"\"To award unfettered control to the other side would not serve justice,\" said attorney Burt Levitch.",
"Jackson's lawyers argued that Jackson was removed from several critical roles by Michael Jackson after the signing of the will.",
"Katherine Jackson's lawyers argued that the removal from several critical roles should also exclude Jackson as executor.",
"\"Quite frankly, Jackson has concerns about handing over the keys to the kingdom,\" attorney Burt Levitch said.",
"But Jackson's lawyer, Paul Hoffman, said Jackson had represented Michael Jackson off and on since Jackson was 21, that Jackson was Michael Jackson's lawyer at the time the will was written and that Jackson was rehired in mid-June.",
"Jackson represented Michael Jackson from 1980 until 2006 and was hired again before the singer's death.",
"Jackson helped acquire Michael Jackson's music catalog, which is worth millions.",
"McClain is a longtime Michael Jackson friend who has worked with Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson's sister Janet.",
"A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that Michael Jackson felt strongly enough about the executors of his will to name the executors of his will in his will.",
"A Los Angeles Superior Court judge required the executors of his will to acquire a $1 million bond to insure the executors of his will's work as executors.",
"A Los Angeles Superior Court judge said A Los Angeles Superior Court judge hopes the two sides can come to an agreement -- a \"free flow of information\" -- by August 3.",
"Hoffman said the two sides met for four hours over the weekend but were unable to reach \"an acceptable accommodation.\"",
"In the executors of his will's filing for control of the estate, the executors of his will said it would allow the executors of his will to tend to Michael Jackson's numerous outstanding debts, legal cases and business obligations.",
"At a hearing Wednesday, Beckloff had appointed Katherine Jackson the temporary administrator.",
"Levitch said Monday that a second will has surfaced and that it was written in 1997.",
"attorney Burt Levitch said that attorney Burt Levitch hasn't looked at it and that it was given to the court for safekeeping.",
"However, the 1997 document will have no bearing unless the later one is discredited, which the lawyers don't expect.",
"CNN's Linda Hall, Nicole Saidi and Henry Hanks contributed to this report."
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"After a town hall meeting on health-care reform in Belgrade, Montana, Obama will escape to Big Sky country on Friday evening where Obama'll spend time with family and go fly-fishing for the first time.",
"White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel carries fly-fishing tackle to Marine One on Friday.",
"Fly-fishing requires a singular focus, much like golf.",
"Having newly discovered the sport myself, it occurred to me as I watched Marine One lift off the South Lawn on Friday that there are probably some lessons on the river that could apply to Obama's presidency.",
"Thinking like a producer, I called an expert -- fly-fishing instructor Tony Derosier, who described the evolution most fishermen go through.",
"\"Usually, when you first go fishing, all you want to do is catch a fish, and then all you want to do is catch a lot of fish, and then you just want to catch the larger fish.",
"After you've caught a lot of large fish, you kind of go back to square one and catch just one fish,\" said Derosier, manager at Taylor Creek Fly Shop in Aspen, Colorado.",
"\"You basically just want to go fishing -- the numbers, the size, it doesn't matter any more.\"",
"Obama is in the \"big fish\" stage of Obama's presidency: Obama's trying to get health-care reform legislation passed hook, line, and sinker.",
"If Obama's successful, anything else Obama gets passed will be icing on the cake.",
"Learning the fundamentals of fly-fishing can serve as a metaphor for health care reform.",
"Obama just needs to look at hooking and landing Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans like Obama would trout.",
"The first step -- learn how to cast.",
"\"Fly-casting is all about maximizing the energy you put in your rod and you lose energy if you wait too long,\" Derosier said.",
"\"And conversely, if you don't wait long enough, your line will crack like a whip.\"",
"Obama has to strike the right balance between rushing things through and losing momentum; and maintaining support while bringing others over to Obama's side.",
"The second step -- reading the water: \"Instead of blindly casting anywhere in the river you want to understand where you might find fish,\" Derosier explained.",
"Obama zeroed in on a fairly conservative state, Montana, where Obama faces a land full of skeptics about Obama's health care reform plan.",
"Third -- hook and land the fish:",
"Derosier said once you hook the fish you have to know how to play the fish, which is a delicate balance between applying pressure but not so much that the line breaks -- much like the delicate balance of Obama's courting members of Congress.",
"\"The ultimate goal is to gain an advantage over the fish so that you can land him,\" Derosier said.",
"\"It's the hardest thing to teach when it comes to fly-fishing,\" Derosier said.",
"Out in Montana, the game is catch-and-release trout.",
"But in Washington, Obama is trying to hook Congress and take home health care reform, or risk health care reform being the big one that got away."
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"Beginning anglers desire to catch bigger and bigger fish, expert says .",
"Obama is in the \"big fish\" stage of Obama's presidency, Shawna Shepherd writes .",
"Delicate processes of political success are like casting, reading the water, etc."
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"Financing for DreamWorks's partnership with one of India's richest men was finalized Monday, giving Steven Spielberg and partner Stacey Snider money to resume making movies.",
"From left to right, Steven Spielberg, Anil Ambani, Stacey Snider and Amitahb Jhunjhunwala.",
"The deal with Anil Ambani, chairman of India's Reliance BIG Entertainment, provides Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks with $875 million, coming from Anil Ambani, the Walt Disney Co. and loans made by a syndicate of banks.",
"Disney will distribute and market about six DreamWorks Studios films around the world each year, with the exception of India, where Reliance will have those rights.",
"Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider found Spielberg and Snider in need of financial partners last year when Steven Spielberg cut ties with Paramount Pictures and began rebuilding DreamWorks into an independent studio.",
"Although the deal, which was announced last year, has been characterized in some reports as \"Hollywood meets Bollywood,\" Steven Spielberg and Spielberg and Snider will have creative control over productions.",
"\"This will allow Spielberg and Snider to move ahead quickly into production with Spielberg and Snider's first group of films,\" Snider and Steven Spielberg said in a joint statement.",
"Reliance BIG Entertainment is part of the Reliance group controlled by Anil Ambani.",
"\"Our partnership with Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg is the cornerstone of our Hollywood strategy as we grow our film interests across the globe,\" Anil Ambani said.",
"\"Given our faith in the business plan that they presented to us and despite the current economic climate, we were always confident that this day would come.",
"Now Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg can focus on producing more of the great films for which Spielberg and Snider are renowned.\"",
"Ambani, whose company owns hundreds of theater screens across South Asia, has also invested development money this year with other Hollywood production companies, including those owned by actors Nicolas Cage, Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Jim Carrey.",
"A DreamWorks announcement said that J.P. Morgan brought together the syndicate of banks to provide about $325 million in funding.",
"banks include Bank of America, City National Bank, Wells Fargo, Comerica, Union Bank of California, SunTrust, California Bank & Trust, and Israel Discount Bank.",
"One of the first movies to go into production will be \"Harvey,\" an adaptation of the play that won a Pulitzer for playwright Mary Chase.",
"The tale about a man and his invisible bunny friend was first made into a movie, starring Jimmy Stewart, in 1950.",
"Spielberg's long career as a screenwriter, director and producer has included classic blockbusters \"E.T.: The Extraterrestrial,\" the \"Indiana Jones\" series and \"Saving Private Ryan.\""
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"(CNN) --",
"In recent seasons, \"Dancing With the Stars\" has given exposure to such unlikely dancers as \"Cheers\" and Pixar favorite John Ratzenberger, magician Penn Jillette and Oscar-winning octogenarian actress Cloris Leachman.",
"Kathy Ireland is among the contestants who will take part in the \"Dancing With the Stars'\" ninth season.",
"But this year, the show is adding an even more unusual guest: A Hammer.",
"Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- known as \"the Hammer\" for Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- known as \"the Hammer\" for his tough-minded tactics --'s tough-minded tactics -- is among the contestants for the show's ninth edition, ABC announced Monday.",
"Host Tom Bergeron and contestant Donny Osmond appeared on the network's \"Good Morning America\" to make the announcement.",
"\"This is the season where we have a cast that is as big as some of your family reunions,\" Bergeron joked to Osmond, a member of the Osmond family of entertainers.",
"Blog: Are these really 'Stars'?",
"Joining Donny Osmond and Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- known as \"the Hammer\" for his tough-minded tactics -- will be Kelly Osbourne; former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin; models Kathy Ireland and Joanna Krupa; singers Macy Gray, Mya and Aaron Carter; actresses Melissa Joan Hart and Debi Mazar; Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin; ex-UFC fighter Chuck Liddell; snowboarder Louie Vito; and actors Mark Dacascos and Ashley Hamilton.",
"Bergeron said this season will be a bit different as the show will have double elimination in the middle of the season.",
"\"It will be a ballroom bloodbath,\" Bergeron said.",
"The new season of \"Dancing With the Stars\" begins September 21.",
"Last season's winner was gymnast Shawn Johnson."
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"Also scheduled for the ninth season: Melissa Joan Hart, snowboarder Louie Vito .",
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) --",
"Iran has released a French academic from prison, though it's not clear when Clotilde Reiss can return home, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office announced Sunday.",
"French national Clotilde Reiss, right, and British embassy worker Hossein Rassam, far left, in court.",
"Clotilde Reiss, is the second French woman facing charges as part of mass trials in Iran who was released on bond.",
"French authorities are now demanding that Iran drop all charges against Reiss and Nazak Afshar -- an employee of the French embassy in TEHRAN who was released August 8, the statement from French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.",
"They were arrested in connection with protests after the June 12 presidential election.",
"Clotilde Reiss will stay at the French embassy in TEHRAN while Clotilde Reiss awaits Clotilde Reiss's return to France, the statement from Sarkozy's office said.",
"Clotilde Reiss has spoken with Clotilde Reiss's father and is good health and spirits, the statement from Sarkozy's office said.",
"Iranian media reported Clotilde Reiss admitted to crimes in court Saturday in connection with protests after the June 12 presidential election, and asked for clemency.",
"\"I shouldn't have participated in the illegal demonstration and shouldn't have sent the pictures, I am regretful,\" the semi-official Fars news agency has quoted Clotilde Reiss as saying.",
"\"I apologize to the Iranian people and court and I hope the Iranian people and court forgive me.\"",
"Human rights groups and Iran's opposition leaders have accused Iran of forcing people to make such confessions.",
"Iranian authorities arrested about 4,000 people amid protests against the June 12 presidential election, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi has said, according to the Iran Labor News Agency.",
"judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said 3,700 were released in the first week.",
"But 100 defendants, including Afshar, Reiss, and an Iranian employee of the British embassy, appeared this month in Tehran's Revolutionary Court at a mass trial on charges related to recent post-election violence.",
"Thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest the official result of the vote -- the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Iran said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opponents accused officials of rigging the results.",
"A crackdown by security forces followed, and at least 30 people died in the violence."
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"Clotilde Reiss, is second French woman facing charges released on bond .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Inside a freezer in a research laboratory at the University of Washington are blood and blood plasma samples from 92 people who suffer from mysterious illnesses, including tremors, memory loss and severe migraine headaches.",
"Terry Williams hugs Flight attendant Terry Williams's two boys -- Jake, left, and Zack -- in 2006, before Flight attendant Terry Williams says toxic cabin air made Flight attendant Terry Williams sick.",
"They are mostly pilots and flight attendants who suspect they've been poisoned in their workplace -- on board the aircraft they fly.",
"Clement Furlong, University of Washington professor of medicine and genome sciences, leads a team of scientists who have been collecting the samples for 2 ½ years.",
"Furlong said Furlong's team is a few months away from finalizing a blood analysis test that will be able to definitely confirm whether the study participants were indeed poisoned by toxic fumes.",
"Results of Furlong's research could expand recognition of what a select group of researchers believes is a largely unrecognized risk of flying: the chance that poisonous fumes enter the cabin.",
"\"There's a danger of inhaling compounds that are coming out of the engine,\" said Furlong in Furlong's laboratory.",
"See a diagram of how the air is circulated » .",
"The air we breathe on board a plane is a 50-50 mix of filtered, recirculated air and so-called \"bleed air\" -- which bleeds off the engines, and then is pressurized and cooled before being sent into the cabin through vents.",
"If an engine oil seal leaks, aviation engineers and scientists say, the bleed air can become contaminated with toxins.",
"In 2002 the National Academies of Sciences' National Research Council reported \"contaminant exposures result from the intake of chemical contaminants (e.g., engine lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, deicing fluids and their degradation products) into the Environmental Control System and then into the cabin.\"",
"Of particular concern are toxic anti-wear agents in the oil, designed to prolong an engine's life, called tricresyl phosphates.",
"\"The engine seals fail and there's very potent toxins that can come on board,\" said Furlong.",
"Neuropsychologist Sarah Mackenzie Ross of University College London studied 27 British pilots who claimed they had inhaled contaminated air and subsequently had difficulty processing information and slowed reaction times.",
"Neuropsychologist Sarah Mackenzie Ross of University College London's testing confirmed 27 British pilots who claimed they had inhaled contaminated air and subsequently had difficulty processing information and slowed reaction times's symptoms.",
"\"27 British pilots who claimed they had inhaled contaminated air and subsequently had difficulty processing information and slowed reaction times did appear to underperform on tasks that required attention, processing speed, reaction time, and what we call executive functioning, which is high-level decision making,\" said Neuropsychologist Sarah Mackenzie Ross of University College London.",
"Flight attendant Terry Williams believes Flight attendant Terry Williams is a victim of such a \"fume event.\"",
"Flight attendant Terry Williams complains of debilitating migraine headaches, tremors, and blind spots in Flight attendant Terry Williams's field of vision.",
"\"It's been so constant and just continues to worsen so it's extremely frustrating,\" said Williams, who is suing Boeing, the owner of McDonnell Douglas, which made the MD-82 aircraft on which Flight attendant Terry Williams worked.",
"\"I'm frustrated that I don't feel any better and it's over two years after the exposure.\"",
"Boeing told CNN, \"It is Boeing's belief that air quality on airplanes is healthy and safe.\"",
"In Boeing's response to Flight attendant Terry Williams's suit, Boeing said: \"The potential for bleed air contamination has been known through the aviation industry for many years.\"",
"But Boeing denies any responsibility for Flight attendant Terry Williams's illness.",
"While Terry Williams''s symptoms appear to be quite rare, it appears that fume events occur with regularity.",
"A British study for the House of Lords found fume events in 1 of every 2,000 flights.",
"In the U.S., airlines are required to report \"fume events\" to the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"There were 108 such reports last year.",
"So why wouldn't more flight attendants, pilots and passengers suffer symptoms?",
"Furlong said a small percentage of people (how small is not known) appear to be highly sensitive to the most toxic chemicals.",
"They may be genetically disposed to a strong reaction, possessing multiple genes of metabolizing proteins in their livers, or temporarily have high enzyme levels (which can be triggered by prescription drugs) that will act on the inhaled chemicals to magnify their toxicity.",
"\"If you happen to be taking a medication that turns on the protein that converts pre-toxin to very potent toxin, you've got an issue,\" said Furlong.",
"As a result, someone sitting next to a victim may have inhaled the same contaminated fumes, but not suffer the same reaction.",
"How might you know that you may have been exposed to a \"fume event\" while flying?",
"Experts say the telltale sign is a \"dirty sock\" smell.",
"That's butyric acid from engine oil, which itself is not highly toxic.",
"But along with it comes the deadly nonodorous compounds tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate and mono-ortho-cresyl phosphate.",
"Boeing's new plane, the 787 Dreamliner, has been designed so that air entering the cabin from outside will not \"bleed\" off the engines.",
"Boeing says that's only for fuel efficiency purposes, not because of any concern about the quality of bleed air in Boeing's current fleet of aircraft.",
"Indeed, Boeing and the FAA say the air quality on airplanes is as good or better than that of the average office building or home.",
"CNN's Jessica Ravitz contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"Anita Davenport's curiosity about Anita Davenport's's family's past began with the photographs that surrounded Anita Davenport's.",
"Anita Davenport's said Anita Davenport's wanted to know the stories behind the images of Anita Davenport's's parents and uncles.",
"Anita Davenport's's grandfather, Walter, was stationed in Battle Creek, Michigan, during World War I.",
"The stories Anita Davenport's found -- and shared during several phone conversations from Anita Davenport's's home in Culver City, California -- parallel the African-American journey during the past century.",
"The search took Anita Davenport's to 1894, when Anita Davenport's's grandfather, Walter, was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia.",
"Anita Davenport's moved to Wedowee, Alabama.",
"During World War I, Anita Davenport's was stationed at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan, Anita Davenport's said.",
"Thousands of other African-Americans were also on the move, mainly to the Northeast and the Midwest, eager for opportunities related to the war and industrialization, according to Howard Dodson, a historian and the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.",
"Anita Davenport's later returned to Alabama, married and had nine children, one of whom was Anita's father, Frank.",
"Anita Davenport's was fond of Battle Creek and regaled Anita Davenport's's family with stories, Anita Davenport's said.",
"stories must have been convincing.",
"The eldest of Anita Davenport's's nine children, also named Walter, moved north to Battle Creek in 1951.",
"Frank Davenport, Anita Davenport's's father, later joined his older brother in Michigan.",
"Anita Davenport's was born in Battle Creek.",
"Between 1940 and 1970, more than 5 million African-Americans left the South, migrating to cities like Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan, and New York.",
"\"You have this incredible movement of black people across the width and breadth of this land and [black people] establish black people as a national presence, rather than a regional one [based] in the South,\" Dodson said.",
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"That movement of African-Americans -- called \"the Great Migration\" -- had a clear and direct impact on the country.",
"\"the Great Migration made race a national issue,\" said Nicholas Lemann, author of \"The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How the Great Migration Changed America.\"",
"\"You could say it was always a national issue and have a very powerful case ... but it was possible to say, 'It's a Southern issue,'\" he said.",
"\"After the Great Migration, it was no longer possible.\"",
"African-American culture was interacting with other cultures across the whole of American society, Lemann said, \"affecting everything from government policy and music to sports and everything in between.\"",
"The return South .",
"Civil rights legislation passed during the 1960s helped set the stage for the next era of African-American migration: A return to the South.",
"Around 1970, many African-Americans began moving back to the South, historians and demographers say.",
"The trend accelerated during the 1990s and this decade, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think-tank.",
"From 1965 through 1970, the South experienced a net migration loss -- the number of people who moved into the South compared to the number of people who moved out -- of more than 287,000 African-Americans.",
"Thirty years later, the numbers were nearly the opposite.",
"From 1995 through 2000, the South saw a gain of nearly 350,000 African-Americans.",
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"The statistics come from an analysis of census data conducted by Frey in 2004.",
"The numbers of African-Americans returning to the South are not as large as those seen during the Great Migration, but the trend has resonance because of the place the South occupies in black history and mythology.",
"The ascendance of the South's economy was a key factor behind the return migration, Frey said.",
"\"I think there's a push and a pull involved with the movement,\" Frey said.",
"\"A lot of it had to do with the decline of heavy industry, which employed a lot of blacks and blue-collar whites, in a whole set of Rust Belt states,\" Frey said.",
"Meanwhile, states like Georgia, Florida, Texas, and increasingly the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee were booming, Frey said.",
"Civil rights legislation and a more educated society made the South more tolerant and hospitable.",
"The booming economy provided jobs and opportunity.",
"But there is also an emotional element for many African-Americans when it comes to the South.",
"\"I think a big part, aside from The booming economy, is the kind of historic roots that blacks have had there,\" Frey said.",
"\"There is something culturally attractive about the South to the African-American population even though the African-American population spent many decades surviving brutal treatment during the Jim Crow period and a lot of the racial discrimination that occurred.\"",
"Dodson, the historian, said many people, especially retirees, made decisions to return out of a desire to connect with ancestral homes, churches and communities.",
"Anita Davenport's's parents still live in Battle Creek, though Anita's parents spend the winters in the South.",
"Anita Davenport's's uncle, Walter Davenport, moved to Stone Mountain, the place of his father's birth, in 1998.",
"When asked for the reasons behind Anita Davenport's's uncle's move, Anita Davenport's said it was a love of the land, the slower pace and something almost \"mysterious.\"",
"\"They wanted to get out of the South, but it still calls them,\" Anita Davenport's said of Anita Davenport's's family's journey during the past few decades.",
"There's \"something about the South and the South just calls them back like a song.\"",
"CNN's Christina Zdanowicz contributed to this report."
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"Census statistics suggest many are returning to the region .",
"An economic boom in the Sun Belt states was a key factor, experts say .",
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"(CNN) --",
"A former high school cheerleader who sued over injuries caused when a teammate failed to catch Brittany Noffke during a routine, lost Brittany Noffke's appeal before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday.",
"the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday a cheerleader couldn't sue her teammate.",
"The seven state justices unanimously concluded cheerleading is a \"contact\" sport, and therefore neither the male student cited nor the school district was liable for damages.",
"Opinion also said stunt in question did not create a \"compelling danger\" to students.",
"Opinion is the first legal decision of Opinion's kind, according to the National Cheer Safety Foundation, a group founded by parents.",
"The case was closely watched by school districts and parents around the country concerned about whether they would have immunity from lawsuits involving unintentional injuries from certain extracurricular activities.",
"Brittany Noffke was a varsity cheerleader at Holmen High School, about 14 miles from La Crosse, in western Wisconsin.",
"Brittany Noffke's team was practicing a \"post to hands\" stunt before a basketball game in 2004, and after being lifted up to stand on the shoulders of a fellow student, Brittany Noffke fell backward, striking Brittany Noffke's head on the floor.",
"The 16-year-old male cheerleader who lifted Brittany Noffke, and then was supposed to be a spotter, failed to catch Brittany Noffke.",
"The girl's family sued the boy and the school district, claiming the coach was negligent by not having a second spotter and not providing safety mats.",
"State law does not specifically spell out which high school activities involve \"contact,\" but they typically involve sports such as football or lacrosse in which opposing teams compete against each other.",
"But the Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded that \"cheerleading involves a significant amount of physical contact between cheerleaders that at times results in a forceful interaction between the participants.\"",
"Justice Annette Ziegler cited the \"spirit rules\" of the National Federation of State High School Association's handbook, which contained pictures illustrating various cheerleading stunts.",
"Justice Annette Ziegler said all but one photo showed at least two cheerleaders in contact with one another.",
"Because the male cheerleader just made a mistake by being out of place when Noffke fell, the Wisconsin Supreme Court found he did not act \"recklessly,\" the only legal standard that would have permitted a lawsuit to proceed.",
"Although it is not considered a sport at many high schools and colleges, cheerleading has grown increasingly popular over the years, and the stunts have become more complex and dangerous, sports injury experts say.",
"A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill study found cheerleading accounted for about two-thirds of some 93 \"catastrophic\" sports injuries -- including head and neck damage -- among high school girls in the past 26 years.",
"But A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill study noted that other sports such as football produce far more devastating injuries, though fewer in number.",
"Cheerleading advocates say the activity has become much safer in the past 15 years, following greater awareness of the risks and better coordination among state and national groups.",
"The American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators estimates about 4 million people are involved in the activity."
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"Two monorail trains at Walt Disney World collided early Sunday, killing a 21-year-old driver.",
"A 2 a.m. ET monorail crash at Walt Disney World killed one person, a park spokesman said.",
"A witness said one of Two monorail trains at Walt Disney World rammed into the back of a stationary train about 2 a.m. at Ticket and Transport Center.",
"There were eight people on board at the time, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.",
"A second employee was taken to a hospital to be checked; the six guests -- members of a single family -- were evaluated by paramedics at the scene and released.",
"Walt Disney World officials said none of the seven was injured.",
"Authorities identified the driver as Austin Wuennenberg, a senior at Stetson University studying computer science.",
"\"It's a terrible day for Walt Disney World,\" said Mike Griffin, Walt Disney World's vice president for public affairs.",
"\"Walt Disney World's hearts go out to Austin and Austin's family.\"",
"A statement from Wuennenberg's family said, \"Austin always enjoyed Austin's work at Walt Disney World, and especially enoyed Austin's work as a monorail pilot.",
"Austin has many great friends who Austin has positively influenced; everyone will truly miss this dynamic young man.\"",
"The theme park is working with county authorities and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the investigation.",
"\"The safety of Walt Disney World's cast and Walt Disney World's guests is legendary and it's Walt Disney World's top priority,\" Mike Griffin said.",
"Walt Disney World calls Walt Disney World's employees \"cast members.\"",
"The monorail was shut after the accident, Mike Griffin said.",
"Images from the scene showed the front car of a train badly damaged where it hit the other train at a station."
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"(CNN) --",
"When pro quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation in 2007, there was a spike in reports of dogfighting in the United States.",
"One of six dogs recovered from a Sumter County, South Carolina, dogfight waits in a kennel last week.",
"But when the headlines faded, the blood sport grew stronger and went even more underground, with thugs taking inventive precautions to keep police at bay, animal cruelty experts say.",
"\"They know it's just not smart to have large crowds anymore, so we've seen fights where you've got the two handlers, a referee and Web cams everywhere broadcasting the fight on the Internet,\" said Mark Kumpf, an investigator based in Ohio who directs the National Animal Control Association.",
"Fights are also being staged on the move -- in 18-wheelers.",
"\"These guys are very sophisticated,\" Mark Kumpf, an investigator based in Ohio who directs the National Animal Control Association said.",
"\"If you're driving down the road, there could be dogs in that truck driving next to you that are dying.\"",
"Dozens more dogfighting cases have been investigated and prosecuted since the Vick case, said Alison Gianotto, who runs the database PetAbuse.com.",
"The computer programmer, horrified when a neighbor's cat was set on fire eight years ago, created the California-based organization to track animal cruelty cases and animal abusers.",
"The database, which logs media stories, has also become a popular place for law enforcement to send reports.",
"\"There's not a central body keeping track of what's happening nationally, which is unfortunate when you consider that a lot of these cases cross state lines,\" she said.",
"Still, detectives, animal welfare professionals and prosecutors agree that the attention the Vick case has brought to dogfighting has been positive because more people are inclined to report more people's suspicions.",
"Dogfighting is illegal in all states; penalties vary but usually include heavy jail time or steep fines.",
"The National Football League suspended Vick indefinitely in August 2007 after Vick pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home Vick owned in Virginia.",
"Vick, 29, was freed from federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, on May 20 and returned to Virginia to serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement.",
"\"At the height of attention on the Vick case, things quieted down across the country with some of these dogfighters getting out of the business,\" veteran animal abuse investigator Tim Rickey said.",
"\"But then, the headlines went away, and people thought the attention was off.",
"It just started right back up, almost stronger than before.\"",
"\"Every Saturday night in every county in Missouri, there is a dogfight going on,\" veteran animal abuse investigator Tim Rickey said.",
"While the Vick case was making the Vick case's way through the court system, Rickey, who directs the animal cruelty task force at the Humane Society of Missouri, was initiating what would become an 18-month investigation linking dogfighting rings in eight states.",
"an 18-month investigation linking dogfighting rings in eight states led to the July 8 arrest of 28 people from eight states.",
"As many as 400 dogs were confiscated in raids coordinated by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, veteran animal abuse investigator Tim Rickey said.",
"veteran animal abuse investigator Tim Rickey said it was the largest such case involving dogfighting in the U.S.",
"While those involved with the Vick case declined Monday to give details about an 18-month investigation linking dogfighting rings in eight states, CNN spoke with several detectives across America who have worked other dogfighting cases.",
"Among the abuses they've uncovered: . • Dogs with missing ears and patches of skin . • Animals with teeth shaved down to the bone . • \"Vets\" who have used leg splints that are to tight to \"treat\" animals in dogfighting rings . • Contraptions, usually fashioned out of wood, much like a treadmill, that force chained dogs to run or be choked.",
"Detective Keith Coberly of the police vice squad in Dayton, Ohio, described a case Detective Keith Coberly recently investigated that resulted in the convictions of three men.",
"A neighbor called police when A neighbor saw a mangled dog that had apparently escaped from a home where investigators found 60 chained pit bull terriers, many being starved and wallowing in their own waste.",
"There were thousands of hypodermic needles scattered across the ground.",
"\"They were using steroids on the animals,\" Detective Keith Coberly said.",
"\"There was one dog -- in such bad shape, man -- tethered to a logging chain, and another was kept in a two-foot shed without ventilation or food.\"",
"The suffering is incalculable, and the cost of caring for the animals is steep.",
"Because the national investigation originated in Missouri, Missouri is harboring about 400 of the rescued dogs, some that have had puppies recently.",
"\"the rescued dogs are bred to attack each other, so just caring for the rescued dogs is a tremendous job.",
"You have to keep the rescued dogs separate, and you have to protect volunteers who are devoting 12, 14 hours of their day,\" Rickey said.",
"\"And we're doing all of that in this economy.\"",
"Investigating dogfighting is dangerous -- and hugely popular in Russian mafia circles and with drug traffickers in Mexico, experts say.",
"Dogfighting is reliant on word of mouth, and on what one undercover officer described as \"bad character\" references.",
"\"If you can get someone to vouch for you, a match is set up,\" Kumpf said.",
"\"They'll have everyone go to a hotel and come pick you up and drive you around in an unmarked van.\"",
"Driving around town helps shake any police tail, he said.",
"Those betting on fights aren't likely to get paid on site any more.",
"Money is often kept at another location, making it more difficult to make arrests.",
"In late July, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell conditionally reinstated Vick, who said on \"60 Minutes\" on Sunday night that Vick cried in prison because of the guilt Vick felt about dogfighting.",
"Vick's agent announced Thursday that the former Atlanta Falcon signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, which reportedly could be worth more than $6 million.",
"\"I hope people realize [dogfighting] is not just about Michael Vick,\" Rickey said.",
"\"It's a lot bigger than Vick.\""
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"Melissa Harris-Lacewell is associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University.",
"Melissa Harris-Lacewell is the author of the award-winning book \"Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought\" and writes a daily blog titled The Kitchen Table.",
"Melissa Harris-Lacewell says African-Americans remain skeptical about racial progress in the U.S. PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) --",
"America was proud of America for electing Barack Obama.",
"The pride was not just partisan and ideological; The pride was also specifically and clearly racial.",
"The morning after Barack Obama's's win, The New York Times declared \"Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory.\"",
"The Los Angeles Times asserted that \"for the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be a largely white nation's paramount leader.\"",
"Some black commentators openly wept on election night, thrilled with witnessing the election of our first black president.",
"Even Sen. John McCain, conceding defeat, pointed to the greatness of the American promise fulfilled in the election of his opponent.",
"Barack Obama's's victory offered the possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw.",
"For many African-American citizens, the election of the first black U.S. president was cause for celebration and open-mouthed wonder about an outcome that seemed so unlikely just two years earlier, when Barack Obama's announced Barack Obama's's bid.",
"Despite this joy, many black citizens were dubious that Barack Obama's's victory represented the destruction of any particular racial barrier.",
"African-Americans were both proud of and excited about Barack Obama's, but in the 45 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, black Americans had seen doors to power, influence and wealth open just enough to admit just a few without fundamentally altering opportunities for the majority.",
"Indeed, responses to a recent CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicate that black enthusiasm about Barack Obama's exists side-by-by side with deep skepticism about America's racial progress.",
"This atmosphere of both enthusiasm and doubt has sparked discussion about whether we have entered a post-racial era in American politics.",
"It is a difficult debate, because the term \"post-racial\" is not clearly defined.",
"Race itself is a slippery idea.",
"Typically, we treat race like a fixed, unchanging, biological category.",
"But race is none of these things.",
"Race is a social construct.",
"Though Race is based in physical traits, race is a category developed through social practice, law and history.",
"As a nation, America made blackness through America's politics, developing a category of people who could be enslaved and later segregated.",
"So when we talk of a post-racial America, we are not pointing to the massive demographic shifts that are unalterably changing the racial, ethnic and linguistic landscape of America.",
"Instead, \"post-racial\" is an expression of social and political longing.",
"For most, this means an America free of racism and discrimination, but others seem to hint at a society entirely free of racial identity or recognition.",
"The idea of a post-racial America has been upheld as an achievable ideal where people would receive equal treatment and fair outcomes regardless of people's race.",
"It has been critiqued as an impossible dream unlikely to exist in a nation with a history of slavery and legal discrimination.",
"It has been denounced as an unworthy goal that would require black Americans to reject black Americans's cultural specificity and unique social and political concerns.",
"Undoubtedly, the 2008 election broke formerly entrenched racial trends.",
"Barack Obama's was elected just as the depth and breadth of the American economic crisis was becoming clear.",
"Some suggested that Barack Obama's's victory could be explained by the nation's fiscal difficulties because Barack Obama's was the candidate of the out-party, which often wins when times are hard.",
"But this analysis forgets the cross-cutting history of race.",
"When the economic pie shrinks, Americans rarely form multiracial political coalitions led by minority candidates.",
"Barack Obama's's victory countered the trend toward racial balkanization more typical in tough economic times.",
"The changing dynamics of racial politics were further evidenced when Barack Obama's won both Virginia and North Carolina.",
"In these Southern states and in many blue states throughout the country, Barack Obama's shattered the \"Bradley Effect,\" often getting a higher percentage of the white vote than polls predicted.",
"There was little evidence that white voters rejected Barack Obama's based on Barack Obama's's race, and few white Democrats crossed party lines to vote for McCain.",
"For these reasons, Barack Obama's's win offers evidence of a post-racial American electoral politics.",
"And if not post-racial, these data at least point to a much less racist American voting public than what existed 40 years ago.",
"Still, the election of a black president has not changed the material realities of racial inequality.",
"African-Americans are significantly more distressed than African-Americans's white counterparts on every meaningful economic indicator: income, unemployment, wealth, education, home ownership and home foreclosures.",
"African-American social realities are equally grim.",
"Blacks are far more likely to be arrested and more harshly sentenced than whites.",
"African-Americans are less likely to marry, more likely to divorce and more likely to live in single- parent households.",
"Compared with whites, blacks are more likely to suffer infant mortality, cancer, diabetes and premature death.",
"Substantial evidence shows that the economic, social and even political gains made by African-Americans in the 1960s and 1970s have leveled off or reversed in the past decade in areas such as urban education, the number of black elected officials and the racial wealth gap.",
"The murder of a security guard at the national Holocaust museum by a racist anti-Semite reminded America that old-fashioned, violent bigotry still has life in America.",
"These sobering realities indicate that race still vastly over-determines the life chances of Americans.",
"These differences cannot be explained away by class alone, because most of these inequalities persist even when controlling for income.",
"To be born black in America is still a tremendous disadvantage compared with being born white in America.",
"Herein lies the challenge facing Americans in this new racial era.",
"For much of the 20th century, the battle for civil rights rested on a belief that political equality would translate into social and economic justice.",
"There can be little doubt that many of the substantive battles for political power and representation have been won.",
"In that sense, Barack Obama's's election is the fulfillment of a post-racial political promise.",
"It is equally clear that this political arrival has not ushered in the other substantive racial changes that the civil rights movement hoped to achieve.",
"In many ways, political equality is just the beginning of the process.",
"The work of politics is to collectively craft the nation we want to have.",
"The election of Barack Obama's does not indicate the realization of post-racial America, but Obama does allow us the opportunity to engage in renewed, collective questioning of what a racially just nation is like.",
"Having achieved so much politically, there is still real debate about how to end overt racism, structural discrimination and persistent inequality.",
"Some want a country where the black kids don't sit together in the cafeteria, while others hope black kids being together will provoke neither comment nor anxiety.",
"Some want a nation where no one notices race, while others hope that others's racial identity can be both recognized and appreciated.",
"Some worry that eliminating racial barriers will only solidify economic differences, while others suspect that economic justice cannot be achieved without grappling with race.",
"Some want the end of all inequality, while others simply hope disparities will be based on \"merit\" rather than race.",
"As citizens in a democracy, we can choose the future of our racial politics.",
"Not all at once and not without struggle, but we can make new choices .",
"And this time, African-Americans participate in the process of remaking America's racial story from a very different position than we have occupied in the past.",
"Rather than being solely on the margins of national power, black Americans, through the person of Barack Obama's, have achieved a new kind of citizenship more empowered to recreate American race.",
"This does not mean black people have equal political or economic power, but it does mean that the election of Barack Obama's encourages black Americans to even more loudly and clearly articulate our varied aspirations for our country.",
"In November, we did a marvelous thing.",
"Now, the work begins.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Melissa Harris-Lacewell."
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"She says Obama represented real progress in the arena of politics .",
"Melissa Harris-Lacewell: In many other areas, issues of race remain significant ."
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"Natalya Estemirova was abducted and killed in Russia Wednesday, the organization Natalya Estemirova worked for told CNN.",
"Estemirova, pictured in 2007, had been openly critical of Chechnya's president, Ramzan Kadyrov.",
"Natalya Estemirova, of the Russian human rights group Memorial, was kidnapped outside Natalya Estemirova's home in Grozny, Chechnya, Oleg Orlov said, citing eyewitness reports.",
"Natalya Estemirova was later found dead in neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia, said Orlov, the head of the organization's Moscow office.",
"Natalya Estemirova, 50, was a leading human rights activist in the North Caucasus area who had been openly criticizing Chechnya's authoritarian president, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his methods.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed indignation at the murder and said Natalya Estemirova's killers should be punished to the full extent of the law, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's office said.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's condolences to Natalya Estemirova's family, press secretary Natalya Timakova said.",
"Natalya Estemirova shouted that Natalya Estemirova was being kidnapped as Natalya Estemirova was forced into a white Lada automobile that had stopped on the road in front of Natalya Estemirova's house at 8:30 a.m. (12:30 a.m. ET), Oleg Orlov said.",
"An unidentified man grabbed Natalya Estemirova and shoved Natalya Estemirova into the car, Oleg Orlov told CNN.",
"\"This is a kidnapping,\" Natalya Estemirova yelled, Oleg Orlov said.",
"Estemirova studied history at Grozny University, then taught history before turning to journalism and human rights in 1998, Memorial said.",
"She joined the organization in March 2000.",
"In a written statement, U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States is \"deeply saddened\" by the report of Natalya Estemirova's death.",
"\"the United States call upon the Russian government to bring those responsible to justice,\" U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly described Natalya Estemirova as \"uncompromising in Natalya Estemirova's willingness to reveal the truth regardless of where that might lead.",
"Natalya Estemirova was devoted to shining a light on human rights abuses, particularly in Chechnya.\"",
"The Committee to Protect Journalists, in a written statement, demanded that the killing be thoroughly investigated immediately.",
"\"As Natalya Estemirova uncovered massive, ongoing human rights violations in Chechnya by the federal and regional authorities, Natalya Estemirova was often at odds with Chechen authorities, according to Natalya Estemirova's colleagues,\" the advocacy group said.",
"Natalya Estemirova won three international awards for human rights activities -- including the inaugural Anna Politkovskaya Award, named for the Russian investigative journalist who was herself murdered almost three years ago.",
"Natalya Estemirova was Politkovskaya's \"most frequent companion during travel and investigations in Chechnya,\" the organization Reach All Women in War said in announcing the prize for Natalya Estemirova.",
"\"They investigated a number of cases together -- about which Anna wrote for (the newspaper) Novaya Gazeta and Natalya wrote for Memorial's Web site and for local newspapers.\"",
"\"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev must make good on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's promise to investigate this shocking killing by ensuring that the inquiry is thorough and transparent,\" said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney.",
"\"The killers of this courageous reporter, one of the few left in Chechnya, must not be allowed to walk free like so many before them.\"",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko in Moscow, Russia, contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) --",
"The City of Brotherly Love isn't exactly embracing the news that one-time quarterback phenom and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick is joining Philadelphia Eagles.",
"Former Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick, right, was known more for Vick's elusiveness than Vick's throwing prowess.",
"Vick's agent announced Thursday that the former Atlanta Falcon signed a two-year deal with the Eagles, which reportedly could be worth more than $6 million.",
"Vick won't be able to play a regular season game until week six in October, and then, only if the National Football League fully reinstates Vick.",
"\"Too bad they don't have Vick for the whole year,\" Eagles fan Charles James told CNN affiliate philly.com.",
"The NFL indefinitely suspended Vick in August 2007 after Vick pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation in Virginia.",
"Vick, 29, left a Kansas prison in May to serve the last two months of Vick's 23-month sentence in home confinement.",
"Some Eagles fans don't think Vick's punishment was sufficient and were trying to unload Some Eagles fans's game and season tickets on craigslist.com, making it clear Some Eagles fans were less than eager to see Vick in Philly green.",
"iReport.com:",
"What do you think of Vick's return?",
"A post from one irked fan looking to peddle two lower-level season tickets said: \"The last thing my son and I want to see is Vick.",
"We made up our mind to sell the tickets ...",
"$3000 cash gets the tickets.",
"Any info feel free to ask, serious buyers only, I want the deal done fast.\"",
"Lower-level season tickets were selling on an unrelated auction site for as much as $10,000 a pair.",
"Jenkins predicted most Eagles fans -- known to be some of the nation's most demanding -- won't be badmouthing the decision.",
"\"The only people who won't be quiet are the people who don't like the Eagles,\" Jenkins told philly.com.",
"\"Of course, The only people who won't be quiet're going to be talking because Vick's going to be throwing some touchdowns.\"",
"Despite Jenkins's assumption, it's unclear what role Vick will play on the team.",
"A gifted athlete known more for Vick's dazzling runs than Vick's pinpoint throws, Vick's last season in 2006 was a bit of a disappointment to Atlanta fans.",
"The Falcons finished 7-9, and Vick had a completion percentage of 52.6.",
"Vick also threw for 2,474 yards, more than 1,000 fewer yards than the Patriots' Tom Brady, who completed 62 percent of his passes, and almost 2,000 yards behind the Colts' Peyton Manning, who completed 65 percent of his tosses.",
"However, Vick also ran for 1,039 yards, the most ever by a quarterback.",
"Mike Giunta of Tabernacle, New Jersey, told CNN affiliate WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that signing Vick would spawn \"dissension\" among the Eagles, who made it to their conference championship last season, losing to the Arizona Cardinals.",
"Giunta predicted the move would create consternation between Vick and five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb.",
"\"McNabb's going to be looking over Vick's shoulder constantly now,\" Giunta said.",
"McNabb said in a Thursday news conference that McNabb welcomed the addition of Vick and McNabb \"pretty much lobbied to get Vick here because everybody deserves a second chance.\"",
"Several Eagles fans concur.",
"One of Several Eagles fans, Leroy Emerson of north Philadelphia, told philly.com, \"That was the best move the Eagles ever made, one of the best.\"",
"Some fans, however, were licking Some fans's wounds and pointing to the most severe dogfighting allegations leveled against Vick: that Vick hanged dogs from trees, electrocuted and drowned them.",
"The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have both skewered Vick.",
"The latter alluded to Vick being a \"psychopath\" earlier this year and released a statement Friday saying, \"Millions of decent football fans around the world are disappointed\" in the Eagles.",
"\"PETA certainly hopes that Vick has learned Vick's lesson and feels truly remorseful for Vick's crimes -- but since Vick's given no public indication that that's the case, only time will tell,\" a statement said.",
"Upon being conditionally reinstated to the NFL last month, Vick acknowledged making \"terrible mistakes\" and said Vick had used the past two years to re-evaluate Vick's life.",
"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has said Vick also offered to work with the organization on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals's anti-dogfighting campaign.",
"To some Eagles fans, though, the nature of Vick's crimes is too much to forgive.",
"\"I'm just a little upset with it because I'm such an animal lover,\" Susan Wilson of Pitman, New Jersey, told WPVI.",
"Kelley Williams of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, told the station that she, too, had trouble accepting Vick's signing.",
"\"I think Vick should be out of the NFL altogether,\" she said.",
"Sports talk shows already are predicting that Vick can redeem Vick only by making big plays, and at least some of the Philadelphia faithful concur Vick can shut up Vick's critics on the field.",
"\"If they keep Vick,\" fan James told philly.com, \"Vick'll be the man.\""
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"Several Eagles fans tell CNN affiliates they are excited by prospect of Vick's arrival .",
"Animal lovers still reluctant to give Vick a chance after almost two years in prison ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Lionel Richie burst on the music scene in the 1970s with the Commodores and then went on to a major solo career with hits such as \"All Night Long\" and \"Hello.\"",
"Lionel Richie and Nicole Richie's daughter, Nicole, gave Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's first joint TV interview in six years to CNN's Larry King.",
"Nicole Richie made a name for Nicole Richie on the TV series \"The Simple Life,\" which followed the exploits of Nicole Richie and fellow socialite Paris Hilton, and in the tabloids.",
"Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole have been making news for decades, but rarely together",
"In Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's first TV interview together in six years, Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole talked with CNN's Larry King about Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's relationship; Nicole Richie's time in rehab; Lionel's first grandchild, Harlow; Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole's growing family; and more.",
"The following interview, scheduled to air Thursday night, has been edited for brevity and clarity: .",
"CNN's Larry King: You did \"American Idol.\"",
"A European tour.",
"A new CD.",
"You ever give thoughts of just cooling it?",
"Lionel Richie: My answer to that is very simple.",
"I don't like fishing.",
"I'm pretty much like you.",
"This is my hobby.",
"CNN's Larry King: What's the new album [\"Just Go\"] about?",
"Lionel Richie: You know what I decided to do on this album? Something different.",
"Instead of controlling, which is what I love to do -- I'm the writer, I'm the arranger, I'm the producer, I'm the singer -- I decided [to] start another way.",
"I just gave up the power completely.",
"There is only one song on this album that I actually wrote, called \"Eternity.\"",
"King:",
"The \"American Idol\" thing.",
"Was that fun?",
"Why did you do it?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"It's the best fun in the world.",
"Danny [Gokey] was so wonderful.",
"Danny [Gokey] kept saying, \"Suppose I mess up or suppose I sing your line instead of my line,\" and I said, \"You can't mess this one up.",
"And if you feel like you want to sing my part, sing it loud and strong.\"",
"And of course Danny [Gokey] nailed it.",
"It was so much fun to watch everybody backstage.",
"The tension of what goes through that show, I don't think I [could] do it.",
"[Nicole Richie joins the interview] .",
"King:",
"What is it like to be with Nicole Richie in this setting?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"I'm so proud of Nicole Richie right now.",
"There is such a pride that Nicole Richie has turned this corner.",
"Nicole Richie is an amazing mother.",
"I want the world to know where Nicole Richie is.",
"King:",
"Now you're pregnant with a second child, right?",
"Nicole Richie: Yes, yes I am.",
"King:",
"And the father [Joel Madden] is the same?",
"Nicole Richie: Yes.",
"King:",
"You going to get married?",
"Nicole Richie: Eventually, yes.",
"CNN's Larry King: But that's not important or paramount?",
"Nicole Richie: I think for both of us, we are going to do it because we want to, not because that's what you do.",
"CNN's Larry King: What kind of grandfather is he?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"Well, he's very animated.",
"He smiles like this all the time, and so he's nothing but fun for Harlow.",
"Harlow absolutely loves him.",
"Watch Nicole Richie talk about Harlow's daughter » .",
"King:",
"Nicole Richie, you've been through some turbulent times.",
"You've had drug abuse, wild-child behavior.",
"Entered rehab in 2003.",
"How have you come through all of that?",
"Nicole Richie: With the support of my family, really.",
"I've always stayed really close with my mother [Brenda] and my father.",
"I have really great friends.",
"And I just have a really great circle around me who support me no matter what, don't judge me no matter how low I've ever gotten.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"How did you deal with it, Lionel?",
"Lionel Richie: It gave me an amazing opportunity to step up to the plate.",
"I said to Harlow's one day: I have some good news and I have some bad news.",
"I said some bad news is that Nicole Richie is going to die.",
"The good news is, Nicole Richie doesn't have to.",
"I remember that look on Nicole Richie's face of sheer panic.",
"And I said the only person who is going to be able to save Nicole Richie is Nicole Richie.",
"And Nicole Richie went away and about three weeks later I got a phone saying, 'Dad, I want to go into rehab.'",
"And when Nicole Richie checked into rehab, Harlow's mother and I checked into rehab with Nicole Richie.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"What was the toughest part about rehab?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"It was right before \"The Simple Life\" came out.",
"Just the fact that I couldn't do it in private really was unfortunate.",
"But we didn't watch TV there or [had no] connection to the outside world, which I thought was really great.",
"So I just focused on being positive there and focused on Nicole Richie.",
"And my parents were there with Nicole Richie.",
"my parents came for family week.",
"And so I just focused on that and everything just kind of fell in place.",
"Watch Nicole Richie talk about rehab » .",
"King:",
"When all of those troubles were going on, didn't it affect [your] performance?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"Thank God for the stage.",
"What the stage was for Nicole Richie was an outlet.",
"the stage gave me a chance to kind of get away from it for a moment.",
"CNN's Larry King:",
"You said that you were not a good dad to Nicole Richie growing up ... wasn't there for Nicole Richie.",
"Do you regret that?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"I was trying to be Nicole Richie.",
"There is a part of [me] that's guilty because I wish I could have been there more for Nicole Richie, but I was trying to make it as the solo guy at that time.",
"CNN's Larry King: What kind of dad was Lionel Richie?",
"Nicole Richie:",
"I really hate when Lionel Richie says that.",
"I hate when Lionel Richie says that Lionel Richie wasn't a good dad because my memory of my childhood was nothing but good memories.",
"I remember Lionel Richie coming down in the kitchen in the morning and singing songs and us playing.",
"Was Lionel Richie gone a lot?",
"Yeah.",
"But Lionel Richie also toured a lot.",
"Even when Lionel Richie and my mom divorced, it was kind of like Lionel Richie was on tour, so I was kind of OK with it.",
"And Lionel Richie's not perfect, Lionel Richie's a human and we went through phases of not speaking.",
"I could sit here and I could say that I was a terrible daughter, too, but I am not going to say that.",
"King:",
"How do you like her boyfriend [Joel Madden]?",
"Lionel Richie: Love Joel Madden.",
"Love him.",
"CNN's Larry King: Don't you want them to get married?",
"Lionel Richie: I want them to take their time.",
"I'm more interested in whether they like each other and whether they're best friends.",
"Because that means they'll be great parents forever.",
"King [to Nicole]: You were adopted.",
"Nicole Richie: Yes.",
"Lionel Richie:",
"When Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole adopted, [Nicole Richie] was 8, yes.",
"When Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole first met Nicole Richie, Nicole Richie was 3 1/2.",
"CNN's Larry King: Took five years?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"Nicole Richie stayed with Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole for two years before Lionel Richie and his daughter, Nicole even thought about legal guardianship.",
"King:",
"Was there a doubt about doing it?",
"Lionel Richie:",
"It was a tremendous responsibility, but I fell in love.",
"Brenda fell in love.",
"And once you fall in love, you don't know anything else."
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"Nicole Richie says parents' love and support helped Nicole Richie make it through drug rehab .",
"Nicole Richie on Lionel: \"I hate when Lionel Richie says that Lionel Richie wasn't a good dad\"",
"How was Lionel Richie's \"American Idol\" appearance? \"It's the best fun in the world\""
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"(CNN) -- Launched in 1995, the Airbus A330-200 is the newest member of the European aircraft manufacturer's twinjet family.",
"The incident involves an Air France Airbus A330-200.",
"With a range of 12,500 km (6,750 nautical miles) and the capacity to carry 253 passengers, the A330-200 is extremely well-regarded as a medium to long-range airliner.",
"There are 600 currently in service with 82 airlines, including Air France, worldwide.",
"Airbus has a further 300 orders for A330-200.",
"According to aviation expert Kieran Daly, the A330-200 is a \"reliable, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art airplane,\" with an impeccable safety record.",
"Daly told CNN that there has only been one reported incident when an aircraft of this type has crashed.",
"\"The incident took place in 1994 before A330-200 came into service,\" Daly said.",
"\"A330-200 was being flown in test-mode by pilots who were putting A330-200 through some extreme maneuvers before A330-200 came down.",
"\"Therefore the crash was not caused by the plane itself.",
"\"It is very well-designed and well-equipped, with equally modern and reliable General Electric CF-6 engines.\"",
"Air France has said that Flight AF 447 sent an automatic signal indicating electrical problems while going through strong turbulence early in its 11-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.",
"Why it took so long to report A330-200 missing » .",
"However, Daly said that it would take extremely violent weather conditions to cause the catastrophic failure of an aircraft of this size.",
"\"These planes are extremely robust and widely used on transatlantic routes and across Asia,\" Daly said.",
"\"These planes are equipped with an array of sophisticated communication equipment, so it must have been something extremely sudden to cause the loss of contact.\"",
"There has also been speculation that the Paris-bound flight was struck by lightning, but that should not bring down a modern airliner, former Airbus pilot John Wiley told CNN.",
"According to Air France, the captain of Flight AF 447 had a record of 11,000 flight hours and had already flown 1,700 hours on Airbus A330/A340 aircraft.",
"Of the two first officers, one had flown 3,000 flight hours (800 of which on the Airbus A330/A340) and the other 6,600 (2,600 on the Airbus A330/A340). A330-200 had totaled 18,870 flight hours and went into service on 18 April 2005.",
"A330-200's last maintenance check in the hangar took place on 16 April 2009.",
"The larger A330-300 aircraft from Airbus entered service in 1993 and has a capacity of up to 335 passengers.",
"It too has an impressive safety record, despite a couple of incidents in the last 10 years.",
"In August 2001, a Canadian airliner operated by Air Transat experienced double engine failure while traveling to Portugal.",
"Miraculously the captain was able to perform an emergency landing in the Azores by gliding the powerless plane for almost 18 minutes.",
"Last year, an A330-303 was forced to make an emergency landing in Australia after a sudden change in altitude injured 74 passengers.",
"Qantas Flight 72 was flying from Singapore to the western Australian city of Perth when a sudden change of altitude caused abrasions, contusions, fractures and other injuries.",
"The cause of the sudden drop remains under investigation."
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"Editor's note: Abigail Thernstrom is the author of \"Voting Rights -- and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections,\" published last month by AEI Press.",
"Abigail Thernstrom is the vice-chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.",
"Abigail Thernstrom's writing can be found at http://www.thernstrom.com/.",
"Abigail Thernstrom says an impressive biography isn't a qualification for the Supreme Court.",
"(CNN)",
"-- Sonia Sotomayor's is all but certain to be confirmed as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.",
"It is close to unimaginable that the Republicans will peel off enough Democratic votes to stop Senate confirmation.",
"Sonia Sotomayor's's a first: a Latina.",
"And Sonia Sotomayor's has an impressive life history: Raised in a housing project by a single mother, Sonia Sotomayor's went to Princeton and then to Yale Law School.",
"It's a classic American overcoming-the-odds story, but, while admirable, it is not a qualification for the highest court in the land.",
"Democrats themselves have often implicitly made the same point -- about other minority appointees, in fact.",
"Democrats themselves never saw the much humbler origins of Justice Clarence Thomas as an argument for his elevation to the Supreme Court.",
"And Democrats themselves used a filibuster to stop Bush appointee Miguel Estrada from getting a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which Democrats themselves feared would be a springboard to the Supreme Court.",
"Bush appointee Miguel Estrada is a Honduran who arrived in America at age 17 with only limited command of English; Bush appointee Miguel Estrada was also raised by a single mother and made it to Harvard Law School, where Bush appointee Miguel Estrada was editor of the law review.",
"Supporters of Sonia Sotomayor's argue that Sonia Sotomayor's will add needed \"diversity\" to the Supreme Court.",
"Yet, with Sonia Sotomayor's's confirmation, there will be six Catholics, two Jews and one Protestant.",
"For many Americans, religious affiliation is more important in defining an individual than race or ethnicity.",
"But no one is complaining about \"too many\" Catholics or Jews -- thankfully.",
"America is supposed to be a land in which individuals are seen as ... individuals.",
"Too many, too few: that is the language of un-American quotas.",
"Sonia Sotomayor's has suggested that race and ethnicity, to a substantial degree, define individuals.",
"\"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences ... our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging,\" Sonia Sotomayor's said in a 2001 speech.",
"At Sonia Sotomayor's's confirmation hearings, Sonia Sotomayor's will undoubtedly dance away from such ethnic determinism.",
"But it would appear to be what Sonia Sotomayor's believes, since Sonia Sotomayor's has reiterated the point several times in different venues.",
"Sonia Sotomayor's's supporters also emphasize the \"empathy\" Sonia Sotomayor's would bring to the court.",
"It is a quality the president promised the president would look for in making court appointments.",
"In a July 2007 campaign speech, the president said, \"We need somebody who's got the heart -- the empathy -- to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom.",
"The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old, and that's the criteria by which I'll be selecting my judges.\"",
"Evidently, however, not all impoverished backgrounds leave you empathetic.",
"The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding appears to be party membership.",
"By definition, conservatives are assumed to lack empathy.",
"As Berkeley professor George Lakoff has argued, \"Empathy is at the heart of progressive thought.",
"... Progressives care about others as well as Progressives.\"",
"And, by implication, conservatives don't.",
"Empathy has thus become a code word for progressive politics -- the likelihood that, as a justice, the nominee will take politically liberal positions.",
"Public policy preferences driving Supreme Court decisions?",
"What a shock.",
"Some justices have much more respect for the law than others, but if the opinions were not often judgments driven by political values as well, they would be less predictable.",
"Most court-watchers thought (correctly, as it turned out) that the recent New Haven firefighters' case would come down four-four, with only Justice Anthony Kennedy's vote hard to call.",
"The results of an exam for promotion within the New Haven fire department had been thrown out because, with one exception, all of the successful candidates were white -- the \"wrong\" color, according to the reasoning of the city and Sotomayor.",
"One can argue that race discrimination decisions do not involve ideology and are based on strictly legal grounds, but if so, it is passing strange that in busing, affirmative action and other race-related cases, even before the oral argument is heard we almost always know which justices will take what positions.",
"Liberals still support busing, for instance; conservatives oppose it.",
"Sonia Sotomayor's will replace another reliable liberal, Justice David Souter, and so the ideological balance on the court will not change.",
"And yet, perhaps as a consequence of Sonia Sotomayor's's implicit embrace of quotas and identity politics, Sonia Sotomayor's has come to the Senate hearings with public support that is unusually low; only 47 percent of Americans say only 47 percent of Americans want Sonia Sotomayor's confirmed, a recent CNN poll found.",
"Nevertheless, Republicans are likely to tread softly in the Senate hearings.",
"Race-related issues make Republicans nervous, and Latinos are a fast-growing group with increasing political clout, especially in such swing states as Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Virginia.",
"Barring the totally unexpected, Sonia Sotomayor's's confirmation will thus be a cakewalk.",
"Let us hope that the public's pessimism proves to be misguided and Sonia Sotomayor's turns out to be a lawyer's lawyer and not an ethnic activist who tends to let the usual political definition of \"empathy\" drive Sonia Sotomayor's's opinions.",
"There is reason to worry: Sonia Sotomayor's will have lifetime tenure on an institution with enormous power.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Abigail Thernstrom."
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"Abigail Thernstrom says Democrats haven't honored such humble beginnings in GOP nominees .",
"Abigail Thernstrom says Sonia Sotomayor's's \"empathy\" may be code word for one brand of politics .",
"Thernstrom: I'm concerned that judge may have more fidelity to activism than to law ."
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"(CNN) --",
"AC Milan have swooped to sign Oguchi Onyewu on a three-year contract -- making him the first American to appear in Serie A since Alexi Lalas in 1996.",
"Oguchi Onyewu will become the first American since Alexi Lalas in the 90s to appear in Italian Serie A after joining AC Milan.",
"Onyewu, who has also played in the English Premier League with Newcastle United, has moved to the San Siro on a free transfer after impressing with some superb displays during the United States' run to the Confederations Cup final.",
"The 27-year-old has played 38 times for the United States', scoring five goals.",
"Latest transfer gossip and rumors .",
"\"This transaction shows once again the excellent friendly relationship between our club and Belgian club Standard Liege, particularly their executive vice-president Luciano D'Onofrio,\" said a statement on Milan's official Web site.",
"Oguchi Onyewu was born in Washington DC to Nigerian parents but began Oguchi Onyewu's club career at Metz in France in 2002.",
"Oguchi Onyewu was loaned out to La Louviere in Belgium in 2003 and Oguchi Onyewu's form there earnt Oguchi Onyewu a move to Liege, where Oguchi Onyewu won two Belgian titles.",
"Oguchi Onyewu then joined Newcastle on loan, playing 11 league matches.",
"However, the transfer is unlikely to appease the Milan supporters who are unhappy with the summer sale of Brazilian superstar Kaka to Real Madrid -- and the departure of coach Carlo Ancelotti to Chelsea.",
"About 300 fans protested outside the club's Milanello base on the first day of pre-season training on Monday, complaining at the lack of big name signings."
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"The 27-year-old joins from Belgians Standard Liege on a three-year contract .",
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"(CNN) --",
"Renee Pernice, a 35-year-old mother of two young children, vanished from the house's home in Kansas City, Missouri, shortly after New Year's this year.",
"Renee Pernice hasn't been heard from since.",
"Renee Pernice is pictured here with Renee Pernice's two sons and husband, Shon.",
"Police believe foul play is involved, yet Police have not found Renee Pernice's body.",
"No one has been arrested in the case.",
"Police have not named Shon Pernice's husband, Shon Pernice, as a person of interest or a suspect in the case.",
"However, \"he's the last known person to see Renee Pernice alive,\" said Doug Niemeier, a sergeant with the Kansas City Police Department.",
"Six months after Renee Pernice disappeared, police say police still have questions about Renee Pernice's husband in the days after Renee Pernice's disappearance, including why Shon Pernice allegedly accessed a local fire department's hazardous materials building around 4:30 a.m. January 3.",
"\"It should be noted that multiple types of cleaners, solvents and cleaning supplies are stored at Station #5,\" a police affidavit says.",
"Attorneys for Shon Pernice declined to comment for this story.",
"Police and family say Renee Pernice was pursuing a divorce around the time Renee Pernice disappeared.",
"A local firefighter, Shon Pernice has said Shon Pernice was not involved in Renee Pernice's disappearance.",
"Shon Pernice told a local activist in March that \"I didn't harm my wife one bit.",
"Not at all.\"",
"In that interview, one of the few in which Shon Pernice's referenced Shon Pernice's wife's disappearance, Shon Pernice added, \"It's gut-wrenching thinking that either Renee Pernice's got a rich-ass doctor boyfriend somewhere and Renee Pernice's happy, or Renee Pernice's dead.\"",
"Since Shon Pernice's wife disappeared, Shon Pernice has been arrested twice on unrelated charges: once for allegedly stealing a neighbor's gun and another time for disturbing the peace in an incident with a neighbor this past July Fourth weekend.",
"\"As everybody knows, Renee Pernice has been missing since January 2,\" Shon Pernice told CNN affiliate KCTV5.",
"\"This is what it stems from.",
"Basically what the media ... has portrayed of Shon Pernice -- of the whole situation.",
"There's a lot of people that don't like me.\"",
"The couple's two sons, ages 6 and 9, remain in the care of the father, although Renee Pernice's mother has sought custody of them.",
"\"There is a lot that just isn't right,\" said Rick Pretz, the missing woman's father.",
"\"It's not a stable environment for the children.\"",
"Renee Pernice was known for being a caring mother, a talented nurse at St. Luke's Hospital and a gentle animal lover always surrounded by dogs.",
"Neighbors say Neighbors last saw Renee Pernice in Renee Pernice's backyard with Renee Pernice's dogs the morning of Friday, January 2, 2009.",
"When police searched the home, police say police found Renee Pernice's purse, coat and other items still in the house.",
"Renee Pernice's car was in the garage.",
"Police say Renee Pernice's cell phone was missing from the house.",
"A homeless man found the phone in grass about 15 miles from Renee Pernice's home, in an area Renee Pernice was not known to frequent, police say.",
"It was found around midnight January 3, the affidavit says.",
"Since then, police and volunteer teams have searched the area extensively, but police and volunteer teams have found nothing.",
"\"Family members and common friends of both Shon and Renee Pernice told police that Renee Pernice was not the kind of mother who would separate Renee Pernice from Renee Pernice's children for any reason,\" the affidavit says.",
"\"Family members advised that finding Renee's purse at the residence was highly unusual as Renee Pernice never went anywhere without Renee Pernice's purse.\"",
"According to the affidavit, investigators watched Shon Pernice drive away from the home with Shon Pernice's wife's dog and drop his wife's dog off at a park a few days after Shon Pernice reported Shon Pernice's wife missing.",
"the affidavit also alleges that a drop of blood was found in the garage.",
"However, authorities have not released whether it matched Renee Pernice or Shon Pernice's husband.",
"According to Renee Pernice's family, Renee Pernice was not the kind of person to take off on Renee Pernice's own without letting Renee Pernice's family know where Renee Pernice was.",
"\"I spoke to Renee Pernice just the night before at 7 p.m. on the phone,\" Renee Pernice's father told CNN.",
"\"Renee Pernice would never leave Renee Pernice two sons like this.\"",
"Renee Pernice's family is offering a $25,000 reward for any information leading to the whereabouts of Renee Pernice.",
"A white truck that could be related to Renee Pernice's disappearance was captured on a surveillance tape in the area where Renee Pernice's cell phone was found, and police have released a photo of A white truck that could be related to her disappearance.",
"Anyone who may have lent such a truck at the time the surveillance image was taken is being asked to come forward.",
"Renee Pernice is white, stands 5 feet, 7 inches tall, and has brown hair and blue eyes.",
"Anyone with information is urged to call the Kansas City Police Department at 1-816-474-TIPS.",
"CNN's Wayne Drash contributed to this report."
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"Attorneys for husband, Shon Pernice, declined comment for this report ."
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"A woman and three children were killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when Donta Cradock jumped a curb and struck them, police said Thursday.",
"Four people were killed after a car fleeing police struck a home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.",
"\"Donta Cradock literally cut a tree in half,\" Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said, \"then hit the 1-year-old, [who] was in a stroller.",
"The other individuals were on the front porch of The other individuals's own home.",
"He struck with such force that it knocked the concrete steps loose.\"",
"Latoya Smith, 22, died Thursday from injuries in the crash, which occurred shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Fentonville area of north Philadelphia, police Capt. James Clark said.",
"Smith's daughter, Remedy Smith -- who would have turned 1 on Friday -- died at the scene, as did Alicia Griffin, 6, and Gina Rosario, 7, Clark said.",
"Video of the scene showed a crumpled silver Pontiac on the sidewalk, pushed up against the front steps of a house and wedged against a tree.",
"Watch police commissioner describe carnage » .",
"Donta Cradock, 18, the alleged driver of the gray Pontiac, faces charges for theft of a motorcycle, the crime that allegedly triggered his flight, police said.",
"Other charges are pending approval from the district attorney's office, police said.",
"\"We're hopeful that it will be four counts of murder,\" Clark said.",
"Cradock and an alleged accomplice, Ivan Rodriguez, 20, stole a motorcycle at gunpoint around 7:30 p.m., he said.",
"Ivan Rodriguez fled the scene on a motorcycle, while Donta Cradock drove away in the gray Pontiac, Clark said.",
"An unidentified person told a traffic police officer in the area about the alleged robbery and pointed out the gray Pontiac, Clark said.",
"a traffic police officer in the area followed the gray Pontiac and tried to stop the gray Pontiac at a traffic light, Clark said.",
"\"At that point the gray Pontiac fled at a high rate of speed,\" Clark said.",
"a traffic police officer in the area followed the gray Pontiac, but lost sight of the gray Pontiac, Clark said.",
"a traffic police officer in the area was not close enough to chase the gray Pontiac, police said, but eventually came across what Clark called a \"horrific accident.\"",
"Donta Cradock was thrown from the gray Pontiac and is in the hospital, Clark said.",
"He said a gun was recovered on the suspect.",
"Ivan Rodriguez was arrested at his home, Clark said, and faces a theft charge.",
"Both men have \"very extensive criminal histories,\" Ramsey said.",
"Bench warrants were out on Both men at the time of Both men's arrest, Clark said.",
"It was not immediately clear if the two had retained attorneys.",
"CNN's Mark Norman contributed to this report."
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"Police chase ends when car hits home, killing Latoya Smith, 3 kids .",
"\"Donta Cradock struck with such force that it knocked the concrete steps loose,\" police say .",
"Cradock and accomplice face motorcycle theft charges; others pending ."
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"(CNN) --",
"Agents arrested 20 out of 42 people accused in a California Medicaid fraud ring that allegedly bilked the state out of nearly $4.6 million and put the lives of disabled children at risk, a prosecutor said.",
"The defendants are accused of either posing as licensed nurses or organizing a scheme to send unlicensed nurses to provide home- or school-based care to disabled patients, many of disabled patients children with cerebral palsy or other developmental disabilities, the office of the U.S. attorney for central California said in a written statement.",
"The long defendant's list makes the case the largest of Medicaid fraud in California, U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said in a written statement.",
"Each defendant has been charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and at least one count of health care fraud, according to a written statement.",
"Some parents and patients became suspicious of the nurses when Some parents and patients noticed their lack of skills.",
"\"In one case, a 'nurse' was unable to replace a tracheotomy tube that had fallen out of a young patient's neck.",
"In another case, an impostor nurse simply fled a medical situation when an impostor nurse apparently was unable to provide assistance,\" according to a written statement.",
"Some of the unlicensed nurses had foreign training, but never passed a U.S. qualifying nursing exam, the attorney's office said, while others had no medical training at all.",
"Two defendants -- Susan Bendigo and Priscilla Villabroza, the accused ringleaders -- were charged separately.",
"Susan Bendigo and Villabroza instructed the workers to lie about the workers's status and used the names of licensed nurses on documents, the indictment says.",
"Villabroza operated a home health agency -- the Santa Fe Springs company Medicare Plus Home Health Providers -- the indictment said.",
"Villabroza, a registered nurse, knowingly hired unlicensed nurses and billed Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, for the work of licensed vocational nurses from August 2004 through 2007, the indictment alleges.",
"Villabroza pleaded guilty last year to five federal counts of health care fraud, the attorney's office said.",
"Bendigo, a registered nurse, was also director of Santa Fe Springs' Excel Plus Home Health Services, which provided nurses to home health agencies, according to the indictment.",
"Bendigo also was charged last year but fled the country, a written statement said.",
"Officials think she is hiding in the Philippines, said U.S. attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek.",
"Villabroza is awaiting sentencing, and could be sent to prison for up to 50 years, U.S. attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek said.",
"Each of the 42 new defendants faces a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each charge if convicted, according to a written statement."
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"\"Nurses\" cared for disabled patients, many of them children, in homes, schools .",
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"Ringleaders accused of telling workers to lie about status, using real nurses' names ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) --",
"Hope was 14 years old when Hope's uncle raped Hope.",
"Betty Makoni's founded the Girl Child Network to help Zimbabwe's young sexual abuse victims.",
"\"her uncle trapped me to the ground and covered my mouth with her uncle's hand,\" said the 18-year-old from Zimbabwe.",
"\"her uncle threatened to kill me if I ever told anybody.\"",
"So, Hope kept quiet.",
"\"After a while people around the villages started saying that I looked pregnant,\" Hope said.",
"Hope was not only pregnant, but Hope's uncle had infected Hope with HIV.",
"Like many young girls in Zimbabwe, Hope was the victim of a widely held belief that if a man with HIV or AIDS rapes a virgin a man with HIV or AIDS will be cured of a man with HIV or AIDS's disease.",
"This so-called virgin myth, perpetuated by Zimbabwe's traditional healers, has led to the rape of hundreds of girls, according to UNICEF.",
"Some of those victims are too young to walk, much less protect Some of those victims.",
"Betty Makoni's has fought for nearly a decade to protect Betty Makoni's's country's young girls from sexual abuse.",
"And Betty Makoni's's witnessed some of the worst cases of the myth in action.",
"\"The youngest girl I ever came across was a day-old baby who was raped,\" said Makoni, 37.",
"Through Betty Makoni's's Girl Child Network (GCN), Betty Makoni's has helped rescue 35,000 girls from abuse -- including Hope; thousands more have found an empowering community and a public forum in which to speak out.",
"\"Ten girls per day report rape cases,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"\"It means if we keep quiet, at least 3,600 girls per year may just be contracting HIV and AIDS.\"",
"Betty Makoni's's own tragic experiences fuel Betty Makoni's's fierce determination.",
"\"I was raped when I was 6 years old,\" Betty Makoni's recalled.",
"Betty Makoni's's attacker was a local shopkeeper.",
"Betty Makoni's said Betty Makoni's's mother would not allow Betty Makoni's to report the abuse.",
"\"Betty Makoni's said, 'Shh, we don't say that in public,' \" Betty Makoni's remembered.",
"\"I had no shoulder to cry on.\"",
"Three years later, Betty Makoni's witnessed Betty Makoni's's father murder Betty Makoni's's mother.",
"In that moment, Betty Makoni's said Betty Makoni's realized the potentially deadly consequence of a woman's silence.",
"\"I told myself that no girl or woman will suffer the same again,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"Believing an education would provide Betty Makoni's the best opportunity and means to speak out, Betty Makoni's earned two university degrees and became a teacher.",
"While teaching, Betty Makoni's noticed that girls were dropping out of school at an alarming rate.",
"Betty Makoni's approached Betty Makoni's's students with an idea.",
"\"I [said] to girls, 'Let's have our own space where we talk and find solutions,' \" Betty Makoni's said.",
"Girl Child Network was born.",
"Watch Betty Makoni's help young girls find safety and empowerment in Zimbabwe » .",
"By the end of the first year, there were 100 Betty Makoni's clubs throughout Zimbabwe where girls could find support.",
"Betty Makoni's said Betty Makoni's was not surprised: \"Every woman and girl identified with the issues that we were raising,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"In 2000, Betty Makoni's quit Betty Makoni's's teaching job to volunteer with Betty Makoni's full time.",
"\"I decided to become an advocate because I walked my own journey to survival,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"The following year Betty Makoni's successfully procured a piece of land and opened the organization's first empowerment village, designed to provide a haven for girls who have been abused.",
"Girls are either rescued or referred to the village by social services, the police and the community.",
"The healing begins as soon as a girl arrives.",
"\"In the first 72 hours, a girl is provided with emergency medication, reinstatement in school, as well as counseling,\" said Betty Makoni's.",
"It is important to Betty Makoni's that the girls are in charge of the girls's own healing.",
"\"It gives the girls the confidence to transform from victims to leaders,\" Betty Makoni's explained.",
"The process helped Hope work through the times when Hope said \"I thought my life had come to end.\"",
"\"Betty Makoni's offered all Betty Makoni's could ... as I was in a traumatized state,\" Hope said.",
"\"I really appreciate what [Betty Makoni] has done and is doing in my life.\"",
"Today, Betty Makoni's has grown to 700 girls' clubs and three empowerment villages across Zimbabwe.",
"An estimated 300,000 girls have received assistance.",
"For those who were at greatest risk, Betty Makoni's believes that help was especially critical.",
"\"If Betty Makoni's didn't exist, the 35,000 girls I've saved from rape and abuse could have died by now,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"But for Betty Makoni's, speaking out came with a high personal cost.",
"In 2008, Betty Makoni's was forced to flee Betty Makoni's's native country.",
"\"I left Zimbabwe because my life was in danger as a result of my project being interpreted politically.\"",
"Watch Betty Makoni's describe Betty Makoni's's reasons for leaving Betty Makoni's's homeland » .",
"Today, Betty Makoni's lives with Betty Makoni's's family in the United Kingdom.",
"Betty Makoni's still serves as executive director of Betty Makoni's's organization and shows no signs of slowing down.",
"Betty Makoni's has partnered with the DOVE project, a group based in Essex, England, that deals with domestic violence.",
"\"We are now bringing the girls from a local community to the international scene,\" Betty Makoni's said.",
"Betty Makoni's's efforts in Zimbabwe will also be highlighted in an upcoming documentary, Tapestries of Hope.",
"Betty Makoni's says nothing will end Betty Makoni's's fight for the rights of women and girls.",
"\"This is the job I have always wanted to do, because it gives me fulfillment.",
"And in girls I see Betty Makoni's every day.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Girl Child Network and see how to help."
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"Betty Makoni's Girl Child Network cares for Zimbabwe's young sex abuse victims .",
"The organization has rescued more than 35,000 girls .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes ."
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"JAKARTA, the country (CNN) --",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held a commanding lead in national elections Wednesday, according to the latest exit polls.",
"A woman votes at a polling station in the country.",
"An average of six exit polls showed the incumbent holding about 60 percent of the vote compared to 27 percent for former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and 12 percent for Yudhoyono's vice president, Yusuf Kalla.",
"Official results are expected no sooner than next week.",
"the country has 175 million registered voters spread over 17,000 islands.",
"It was the country's second direct election since the authoritarian regime of dictator Suharto fell in 1998, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.",
"Analysts and polls, ahead of the vote, predicted Yudhoyono -- riding high on the country's economic strength -- would win a second term.",
"Watch as incumbent expected to win election » .",
"In 2004, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated then-incumbent Megawati in a runoff election.",
"Watch more on the election » .",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono \"has positive global image; relations with the American government have been the best in all the time that I have been here, the last 30 years,\" said James Castle, who analyzes the country's politics and economy.",
"\"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's very popular in the foreign community and, to be honest, if Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's not re-elected, the markets will react negatively for a month or so.\"",
"Yudhoyono's Democratic Party was the only single party to get enough votes in April's legislative elections to nominate a candidate on Yudhoyono's Democratic Party's own.",
"Kalla's Golkar Party came in second and Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, placed third.",
"Kalla and Megawati had to form coalitions with other parties to run for president.",
"Kalla had hoped voters would give Kalla some of the credit for the country's economic successes which occurred under Kalla's term as vice president.",
"Kalla and Megawati had to form coalitions with other parties to run for president.",
"See a photo slideshow of Indonesians talking about who they will vote for » .",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is known as \"Mr. Clean\" because of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's anti-corruption efforts.",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has gained popularity for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's handling of the 2004 tsunami recovery and the country's battle against terrorism.",
"the country has had impressive economic growth over the past five years, though how much direct credit Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono can take for that is questionable.",
"And despite the country posting an average of 5.9 percent annual growth during Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's presidency, little of that has trickled down to the country's poor.",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's opponents say Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is too liberal, is too skewed toward the west, and doesn't pay enough attention to the 40 million Indonesians living below the poverty line.",
"Still, the country is exhibiting surprising resilience in the face of the global economic downturn.",
"Growth topped 6 percent last year, and the country was the fastest-growing economy in southeast Asia in the first quarter of this year.",
"\"All off a sudden, everybody is contracting except for the country,\" Castle said.",
"\"We've had more visiting regional heads and so on in the last six months than we had in the last six years.\""
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"Three familiar faces competed: current president, his deputy and an ex-president .",
"Analysts and polls have Yudhoyono (known as SBY) tipped to win a second term .",
"SBY is riding high on the country's economic strength ."
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"-- A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats told CNN Wednesday A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats and other group members may vote to block House Democrats''s health care bill from passing a key committee if they don't get some of the changes they want.",
"A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats, is a leading negotiator for the Blue Dog Democrats on health care.",
"\"The conservative Democrats remain opposed to House Democrats' bill, and The conservative Democrats continue to meet several times a day to decide how The conservative Democrats're going to proceed and what amendments The conservative Democrats will be offering as Blue Dogs on the committees",
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"A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats said House Democrats' bill unveiled Tuesday by House Democratic leaders did not address concerns A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats and other conservative Democrats outlined in a letter late last week to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.",
"The conservative Democrats don't believe the legislation contains sufficient reforms to control costs in the health care system and believe additional savings can be found.",
"The conservative Democrats's letter to leaders raised concerns about new mandates on small businesses.",
"Blue Dogs also say House Democrats' bill fails to fix the inequities in the current system for health care costs for rural doctors and hospitals.",
"The Energy and Commerce committee, along with two other House committees, is scheduled to take up House Democrats' bill Thursday.",
"Democrats outnumber Republicans 36-23 on The Energy and Commerce committee, which contains eight Blue Dogs, including A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats.",
"If seven Democrats vote with Republicans against House Democrats' bill, House Democrats' bill would fail to advance to the House floor.",
"Asked whether The conservative Democrats are considering voting as a group against House Democrats' bill if House Democrats' bill remains unchanged, A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats replied, \"absolutely.\"",
"A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats didn't give details on changes The conservative Democrats want.",
"But A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats did say A leader of the conservative \"Blue Dog\" Democrats wasn't satisfied with the penalty exemption for small businesses that don't provide health insurance for employees.",
"An earlier draft of House Democrats' bill exempted businesses from paying a penalty if businesses's payrolls were less than $100,000.",
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --",
"Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation's security forces, Human Rights Watch said Monday.",
"Iraqi clerics say homosexuality must be eradicated but warn against anti-gay violence.",
"Interviews with doctors indicate hundreds of men had been killed, but the exact number was unclear because of the stigma associated with homosexuality in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said in Human Rights Watch's report.",
"\"Iraq's leaders are supposed to defend all Iraqis, not abandon them to armed agents of hate,\" said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"Turning a blind eye to torture and murder threatens the rights and life of every Iraqi.\"",
"Four victims who spoke to CNN gave accounts of the attacks, which Four victims who spoke to CNN say have intensified in the past few months.",
"\"In 2004, militias and unknown groups started to go after the gays ... but the peak was six months ago,\" said Qaisar, who uses a pseudonym for fear of reprisal.",
"\"It has become wide scale war against gays in Iraq.\"",
"Iraqi officials acknowledged that Iraq's culture stigmatizes homosexuality, but said Iraq does not condone such attacks.",
"Authorities are unable to provide homosexuals with special protection, said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.",
"According to Human Rights Watch, which is urging a government crackdown, attackers target people on the streets or storm homes, where attackers conduct interrogations and demand names of suspected gay men.",
"Many end up in hospitals and morgues, Human Rights Watch said, basing Human Rights Watch's conclusion on reports from doctors.",
"Men have been threatened with \"honor killings\" by relatives worried that Men's \"unmanly behavior\" will ruin the family's reputation, Human Rights Watch said.",
"Watch Iraqi men discuss attacks » .",
"Killings, kidnappings and torture of those suspected of homosexual conduct have intensified in areas such as the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, the watchdog said.",
"\"The Shiite people started this war and especially what happened in Sadr City,\" Qaisar said, adding that Qaisar's sister-in-law had warned Qaisar against going to the area.",
"Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which is active in Sadr City, has joined in the attacks and defends Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which is active in Sadr City's actions as a way to stop the \"feminization\" of Iraqi men, the report said.",
"\"Human Rights Watch have testimony that indicates that the nation's security forces are taking part in the attacks,\" Long said.",
"The group interviewed more than 50 people who gave accounts of abuses, beatings and stops at security checkpoints, he said.",
"\"When the attacks started and when they started go(ing) after them at checkpoints ... Human Rights Watch started to change Human Rights Watch's look,\" said Basim, who also used a pseudonym.",
"\"the attacks point to the continuing and lethal failure of Iraq's post-occupation authorities to establish the rule of law and protect Iraq's post-occupation authorities's citizens,\" said Rasha Moumneh, Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch.",
"A provision from the Saddam Hussein era endorses crimes committed \"with honorable motives,\" according to the organization.",
"The government spokesman said A provision from the Saddam Hussein era was popular during the Saddam era, but is not used today.",
"The government spokesman added that there is a push to educate police about human rights.",
"Attacks against civilians, including homosexuals, are not allowed, al-Dabbagh said."
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3,
3,
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2
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